1 Samuel 25:18-22

1 Samuel 25:18-22

[18] Then Abigail  made haste,  and took  two hundred  loaves,  and two  bottles  of wine,  and five  sheep  ready dressed,  and five  measures  of parched  corn, and an hundred  clusters of raisins,  and two hundred  cakes  of figs, and laid  them on asses.  [19] And she said  unto her servants,  Go on  before  me; behold, I come  after  you. But she told  not her husband  Nabal.  [20] And it was so, as she rode  on the ass,  that she came down  by the covert  of the hill,  and, behold, David  came down  her; and she met  [21] Now David  had said,  Surely in vain  have I kept  all that this  fellow hath in the wilderness,  so that nothing  was missed  of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited  me evil  for good.  [22] So  and more  also do  God  unto the enemies  of David,  if I leave  of all that pertain to him by  the morning  any that pisseth  against the wall. 

What does 1 Samuel 25:18-22 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

As Abimelech had done earlier ( 1 Samuel 21:4), Abigail prepared to sustain the Lord"s anointed and his men with food. Compare Jacob"s similar scheme to placate Esau ( Genesis 32:13-21). Was it proper for Abigail to do this without telling her husband? I would say that it was since she was attempting to save Nabal"s life. If she had told him, he probably would not have permitted her to go and would have died at David"s hand as a result.