Abigail rode her donkey and came down to the other side of the mountain. She met David and his men coming from the other direction.
Then she put a saddle on a donkey and said to her servant, “Let’s go, and hurry! Go slow only when I tell you!”
Then Abigail told her servants, “Go on. I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband.
{Before David met Abigail,} David was saying, “I protected Nabal’s property in the desert. I made sure none of his sheep were missing. I did all that for nothing! I did good things to him, but he has been bad to me.