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21 David had just been saying, “What a waste of time—guarding all this man’s stuff in the wilderness so that nothing of his went missing! He has repaid me evil instead of good! 22 May God deal harshly with me, David,[a] and worse still if I leave alive even one single one who urinates on a wall[b] belonging to him come morning!”

23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and fell facedown before him, bowing low to the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:22 LXX; MT with David’s enemies
  2. 1 Samuel 25:22 Descriptive phrase meaning "a male"; also in 25:34

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