Abigail was riding her donkey on the path that led around the hillside, when suddenly she met David and his men heading straight at her.
She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Let's go. And don't slow down unless I tell you to.”
and told her servants, “Take this on ahead, and I'll catch up with you.” She didn't tell her husband Nabal what she was doing.
David had just been saying, “I wasted my time guarding Nabal's things in the desert and keeping them from being stolen! I was good to him, and now he pays me back with insults.