1 Samuel 25 Abigail appeases David

 1 Samuel 25

Abigail appeases David

18 Then Abigail hurried, and took two hundred loaves, and two wineskins, and five stewed sheep, and five measures of toasted wheat, and a hundred bunches of raisins, two hundred pastures of fig, and put them on donkeys.

19 And she said to her young men, Go ahead of me, behold, I will follow you closely. Which, however, she did not declare to her husband Nabal.

20 And it came to pass, when she was riding on a donkey, that she went down by the cover of the mountain, and, behold, David and his men came to meet him, and met them.

21 And David said, Truly, in vain I have kept all that he has in the desert, and he has not lacked all that he has, and he has paid me badly for good.

22 So let God do to David's enemies, and so on, if I leave everything he has until the morning, even a boy.

23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey and fell on her face before David and bowed down to the earth.

24 And she fell at her feet, and said, Ah, my lord, my transgression be mine; So let your handmaid speak to your ears, and hear the words of your handmaid.

25 My lord, now do not make this man from Belial, namely, Nabal, imprint on the heart, for such is he what his name is. Nabal is his name, and madness is with him, and I, your servant, have not seen the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

26 Now therefore, my lord, the Lord lives, and your soul lives, that the Lord prevented you from coming with blood, and that your hand would save you: and now, just as Nabal is your enemies and who seek evil against my lord.

27 And now this is the blessing that your servant brought to my lord: give yourself to the young men who walk after my lord's footsteps.

28 Forgive your transgression therefore to your handmaid, because the Lord will surely make my lord a firm home, because my lord fights the wars of the Lord, and he has not been bad in you all your days.

29 And if any man arose to persecute you, and to seek your death, then the life of my lord will be bound in the bundle of those who live with the Lord your God; but the life of your enemies will be thrown into the distance, as from the middle of the hollow of a sling.

30 And it must be that, using the Lord with my lord, according to all the good that he has already said of you, and has made you a leader over Israel,

31 Then, my lord, it will not be a stumbling block to you, neither without a spill without cause, nor that my lord has saved himself: and when the Lord does my lord well, then remember your servant.

32 Then David said to Abigail, Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me.

33 And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you, who today have hindered me from coming with blood, and that my hand will leave me.

34 For, in truth, the Lord God of Israel lives, who kept me from hurting you, that if you did not hurry, and you did not come to meet me, not even a boy would be left until morning.

35 Then David took what he had brought from his hand, and said to him, Go up in peace to your house; you see here that I have listened to your voice, and I have accepted your face.

36 And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, she had a banquet in her house, like a king's banquet; and Nabal's heart was happy in him and he was already very drunk, so he did not understand a word, small or large, until the morning light.

37 And it came to pass in the morning, when Nabal had already gone out with wine, that his wife gave him to understand those words: and his heart became numb in him, and he remained like a stone.

38 And it came to pass that, after almost ten days, the Lord smote Nabal, and he died.

39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, who pleaded the plea of ​​my affront at the hand of Nabal, and stopped his servant from evil, causing the Lord to make Nabal's evil over his head. And David sent to speak to Abigail, to take her for his wife.

40 When David's servants came to Abigail in Carmel, they spoke to him, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you for his wife.

41 Then she arose, and bowed herself to the ground, and said, Behold, your servant will serve as a maid to wash the feet of my lord's servants.

42 And Abigail hurried, and got up, and rode on a donkey with her five girls who followed in his footsteps: and she followed David's messengers, and was his wife.

43 And she also took David to Aquinoan of Jezreel: and they were also his women.

44 For Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti, the son of Laís, who was from Galim.