OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 20

1 Samuel 25:20

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As she rode on her donkey, and came down hidden by the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

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1 Samuel 25:20 in context

1 Samuel 25:17–23

17

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”

18

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

19

She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.

20
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As she rode on her donkey, and came down hidden by the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

21

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

22

God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

23

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

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