Abigail rode her donkey into a mountain valley. There she saw David and his men. They were coming down toward her.
She put a saddle on her donkey. She said to her servant, “Let’s go. Don’t slow down for me unless I tell you to.”
Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead. I’ll follow you.” But she didn’t tell her husband Nabal about it.
David had just said, “Everything we’ve done hasn’t been worth a thing! I watched over that fellow’s property in the desert. I made sure none of it was stolen. But he has paid me back evil for good.