1 Samuel 25:17-35 Now therfore, take hede, and se what thou hast to do, for there is an occasion of euell geuen agaynst oure master and all his housholde, seyng: he is as a sonne of beliall vngracious to speake to.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ Now therfore, take hede, and se what thou hast to do, for there is an occasion of euell geuen agaynst oure master and all his housholde, seyng: he is as a sonne of beliall vngracious to speake to. ¹⁸ Then Abigail made hast, & toke two hundred loues, & two bottelles of wine, and fyue shepe readye dressed, and fyue measures of parched corne, and an hundred frayles of reasyngs, and two hundred topnettes of fygges, and laded them on asses, ¹⁹ & sayde vnto her young men: go ye before me. Beholde, I come after you. But she tolde her husband Naball nothing therof. ²⁰ And as she rode on her asse she came preuely downe the syde of the hyll, & beholde, Dauid and hys men came downe agaynst her, & she met them. ²¹ And Dauid sayde: in vayne haue I kept all that this felow hath in the wildernesse: so that nought was myssed of all that pertayned vnto hym. And he hath quite me euell for good. ²² So and so do God vnto the enemyes of dauid, yf I leaue of all that pertayne to him, by the dawnyng of the daye, any thing that pisseth agaynst the walle. ²³ And when Abigail saw Dauid, she hasted & lyghted of her asse, and fell before Dauid on her face, and bowed her self to the ground ²⁴ and fell at his fete, and sayde: Let this vnhappie deade be counted myne, my Lorde, & let thine handmayde speake in thine audience, and heare the wordes of thy handemayde. ²⁵ Let not my Lorde regard this vnthriftye man Naball: for as his name is, so is he Nabal is his name, & follie is wt him. But I thine handmayd saw not the young men of my Lorde whom thou sendedst. ²⁶ Now therfore my Lorde, as sure as the lord lyueth, & as thy soule lyueth, the Lorde hath withholden the from comming to shede bloud, & withdraw thou thine hand from bloude sheade Now, I praye God, that thine enemyes & they that entende to do my Lorde euel, may be as Nabal. ²⁷ And now this is the blessyng which thyne hand mayde hath brought vnto my Lord: & lett it be geuen vnto the young men, that folow my Lorde. ²⁸ Forgeue the trespace of thine handmayde, for the Lord will make my Lorde a sure house, because my Lord fyghteth the batayles of the Lorde, and there coulde none euel be founde in the in all thy dayes. ²⁹ And yf any man ryse to persecute the, & to seke thy soule, the soule of my Lorde shall be bound as in the bondell of the lyuing wt the Lord thy God. And the soules of thy enemyes shal God cast out, euen as out of the mydle of a slyng. ³⁰ And when the Lord shall haue done to my Lord all the good that he hath promised the, & shall haue made the ruler ouer Israel: ³¹ then shall it be no decaye vnto the, ner discourage of herte vnto my Lorde, that thou hast not shedde bloud causelesse, ner aduenged thy selfe. But when the Lord shall haue dealt well with my Lorde, then thynck on thyne handmayde. ³² And Dauid sayd to Abigail: blessed be the Lorde God of Israel, which sent the this daye to mete me. ³³ Blessed is thy sayeng, & blessed art thou, which hast kept me thys daye from coming to shede bloud, and from aduengyng my self with myne awne hand. ³⁴ For in very deade, as sure as the Lord God of Israel lyueth, which hath kept me backe from hurtyng the, excepte thou haddest hasted and met me, thinkest thou, there had bene left vnto Nabal by the dawnyng of the daye, a pisser agaynst the wall? ³⁵ And so Dauid receaued of her hand, that which she had brought him & sayd to her: go vp in peace to thyne house. Beholde, I haue herde thy voyce, and haue accepted thy persone.