17 Now consider carefully[a] what you should do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”

18 Abigail hurried, taking two hundred loaves of bread, two clay jars of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel[b] of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(A) 19 Then she said to her male servants, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.”(B) But she did not tell her husband, Nabal.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:17 Lit Now know and see
  2. 25:18 Lit sheep, five seahs

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