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23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell on her face before David’s anger,[a] and she bowed down to the ground. 24 She fell at his feet and said, “On me, my lord, be the guilt! Please let your female servant speak to you personally![b] Hear the words of your female servant! 25 Please do not let my lord set his heart against this worthless man,[c] Nabal; for as his name, so is he. Nabal is his name, and stupidity is with him! But I, your female servant, did not see the young men[d] of my lord whom you sent.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:23 Literally “the nostrils of David”
  2. 1 Samuel 25:24 Literally “in your ears”
  3. 1 Samuel 25:25 Literally “this man of wickedness”
  4. 1 Samuel 25:25 Or “the servants”