1 Samuel 25:18-31

1 Samuel 25:18-31

[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.  [23] And when Abigail  saw  David,  she hasted,  and lighted off  the ass,  and fell  before  David  on her face,  and bowed  herself to the ground,  [24] And fell  at his feet,  and said,  Upon me, my lord,  upon me let this iniquity  be: and let thine handmaid,  I pray thee, speak  in thine audience,  and hear  the words  of thine handmaid.  [25] Let  not my lord,  I pray thee, regard  this man  of Belial,  even Nabal:  for as his name  is, so is he; Nabal  is his name,  and folly  is with him: but I thine handmaid  saw  not the young men  of my lord,  whom thou didst send.  [26] Now therefore, my lord,  as the LORD  liveth,  and as thy soul  liveth,  seeing the LORD  hath withholden  thee from coming  to shed blood,  and from avenging  thyself with thine own hand,  now let thine enemies,  and they that seek  evil  to my lord,  be as Nabal.  [27] And now this blessing  which thine handmaid  hath brought  unto my lord,  let it even be given  unto the young men  that follow  my lord.  [28] I pray thee, forgive  the trespass  of thine handmaid:  for the LORD  will certainly  my lord  a sure  house;  because my lord  fighteth  the battles  of the LORD,  and evil  hath not been found  in thee all thy days.  [29] Yet a man  is risen  to pursue  thee, and to seek  thy soul:  of my lord  shall be bound  in the bundle  of life  with the LORD  thy God;  and the souls  of thine enemies,  them shall he sling out,  as out of the middle  of a sling.  [30] And it shall come to pass, when the LORD  shall have done  to my lord  according to all the good  that he hath spoken  concerning thee, and shall have appointed  thee ruler  over Israel;  [31] That this shall be no grief  unto thee, nor offence  of heart  unto my lord,  either that thou hast shed  blood  causeless,  or that my lord  hath avenged  himself: but when the LORD  shall have dealt well  with my lord,  then remember  thine handmaid.