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17 So know this and think about what you should do. For bad plans have been made against our owner and all his family. He is such a sinful man that no one can speak to him.”

18 In a hurry Abigail took 200 loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready to eat, five baskets of dry grain, 100 vines of dried grapes and 200 loaves of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. 19 She said to her young men, “Go on before me. See, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

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17 Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked(A) man that no one can talk to him.”

18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs[a] of roasted grain,(B) a hundred cakes of raisins(C) and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(D) 19 Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead;(E) I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell(F) her husband Nabal.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:18 That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms