1 Samuel 25:17-35 `And, now, know and consider what you do; for evil has been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he is too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to..

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ `And, now, know and consider what you do; for evil has been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he [is] too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.. ¹⁸ And Abigail hastes, and takes two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep, prepared, and five measures of roasted corn, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred bunches of figs, and sets [them] on the asses. ¹⁹ And she said to her young men, `Pass over before me; lo, after you I am coming;' and to her husband Nabal she has not declared [it];" ²⁰ and it has come to pass, she is riding on the ass and is coming down in the secret part of the hill-country, and lo, David and his men are coming down to meet her, and she meets them. ²¹ And David said, `Only, in vain I have kept all that this [one] has in the wilderness, and nothing has been looked after of all that he has, and he turns back to me evil for good;" ²² thus does Elohim do to the enemies of David, and thus He does add, if I leave of all that he has till the light of the morning--of those sitting on the wall.. ²³ And Abigail sees David, and hastes and comes down from off the ass, and falls before David on her face, and bows herself to the earth, ²⁴ and falls at his feet and said, `On me, my lord, the iniquity; and let, I pray you, your handmaid speak in your ear, and hear the words of your handmaid. ²⁵ `Let not, I pray you, my lord set his heart to this man of worthlessness, on Nabal, for as his name [is] so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him; and I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you did send;" ²⁶ and now, my lord, Yahweh lives, and your soul lives, in that Yahweh has withheld you from coming in with blood, and to save your hand to you--now let your enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord. ²⁷ `And, now, this blessing which your maid-servant has brought to my lord--it has been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord. ²⁸ `Bear, I pray you, with the transgression of your handmaid, for Yahweh does certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Yahweh has my lord fought, and evil is not found in you [all] your days. ²⁹ And man rises to pursue you and to seek your soul, and the soul of my lord has been bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your Elohim; as to the soul of your enemies, He does sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling. ³⁰ `And it has been, when Yahweh does to my lord according to all the good which He has spoken concerning you, and appointed you for leader over Israel, ³¹ that this is not to you for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord--either to shed blood for nought, or my lord's restraining himself; and Yahweh has done good to my lord, and you have remembered your handmaid.. ³² And David said to Abigail, `Blessed [is] Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me, ³³ and blessed [is] your discretion, and blessed [are] you in that you have restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself. ³⁴ And yet, Yahweh lives, Elohim of Israel, who has kept me back from doing evil with you, for unless you hadst hasted, and do come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal till the light of the morning, of those sitting on the wall.. ³⁵ And David receives from her hand that which she has brought to him, and to her he has said, `Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and accept your face..