Bible verse
and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:19 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 25.
15 Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.
16 They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
17 Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
19 and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20 As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.
21 Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
22 May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”
23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.
KJV
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
ASV
And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
ERV
And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
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