¹⁸ Then Abigail, knowing the stakes, rushed about gathering gifts similar to what her husband should have offered: 200 loaves, 2 jugs of wine, 5 sheep (butchered and dressed), more than 50 quarts of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 fig cakes. She had these loaded on donkeys.

But she never stopped to speak to her husband Nabal. She had decided to approach David herself.

²⁰ As she rode down the mountain on a hidden trail, David and his men were approaching, and they met.