Abigail rode her donkey 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.
David was saying, “I protected Nabal’s property in the desert. I made sure not one of his sheep was missing. I did all that for nothing. I was good to him, but he was rude to me.