1 Samuel 25:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Cross References

Genesis 32:16

These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.”

Genesis 32:19

He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him,

Genesis 32:20

and you shall say, ‘Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

Genesis 32:21

So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

Proverbs 31:27

She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

1 Samuel 14:1

One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on yonder side.” But he did not tell his father.

1 Samuel 25:20

And as she rode on the ass, and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail came to Nabal; and lo, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.