Chapter 51
C. about |missed we any_thing,
as long_as we w were_conyersant with them, when we were in the -fields:
16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 Now therefore -know and -consider what thou wilt_do; for evil -is_de- termined against our =master, and i all his household: for he is such a son_of Belial, that aman cannot speak to him.”
18 Then Abigail made_haste, and took two_hundred loaves, and two s* bottles_ of « wine, and five sheep ready_dressed, and five »measures_of parched corn, and a hundred clusters_of_raisins, and two_hundred cakes_of_figs, and laid
_|them on xasses.
12 And she said unto her servants, “-Go_on before me; behold, I +come after you.” But she told not her hus- band Nabal.
2 And it -was so, as she +rode on the ass, that she came_down by the_covert_ of the hill, and, behold, David and his ®©men szcame_down against her; and she met them.
21 Now David had_said, “Surely in yain -have_I_kept «all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was_missed of all that pertained unto ae and he hath_requited me evil for good.
2 So and_more_also ‘do =God unto the_enemies_of David, if I ‘leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light | aany-_that_pisseth against the
3 And_when Abigail saw -Dayid, 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 xiniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I_pray_ thee, speak in thine «audience, and shear -the_words_of thine handmaid.
* Let not my -lord, I_pray_thee, ! re- gard xthis i man_of xBelial, even Nabal: for as his name 7s, so is he: » Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but E thine handmaid saw not -the_young_ men_of my -lord, whom thou didst_ send.
26 Now therefore, my -lord, as J the Lorp liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing ‘the Lorp -hath_withholden thee from coming to shed =blood, and from sa avenging thyself with thine_own hand, now ‘let thine enemies, 4nd x-they_that seek evil to my -lord, be as Nabal.
27 And now «this xblessing which thine handmaid :hath_brought unto my -lord, let it even -be_given unto the young_
men x-that «follow my -lord.
28 T_pray_thee, -forgive the_trespass_ of thine handmaid: for 4 the Lorn will_ certainly make my -lord a sure house; because my -lord +fighteth the_battles_ of J the Lorp, and evil thath not been_ found in thee ali thy days.
2 Yet a «man is_risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy -soul: but the_ soul_of my -lord -shall_be bound in the_ bundle_of x=life with Jthe Lorp thy
lohim. | =God ; and -the_-souls_ofthine enemies,
