Hidden by the mountain, she came down riding on a donkey, as David and his men were coming down from the opposite direction. When she met them,
When the donkey was saddled, she said to her servant, “Lead on! Do not stop my donkey unless I tell you.”
She then said to her servants, “Go on ahead; I will follow you.” But to her husband Nabal she said nothing.
David had just been saying: “Indeed, it was in vain that I guarded all this man’s possessions in the wilderness, so that nothing of his was missing. He has repaid good with evil.