As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them.
She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you.”
Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.