28 “Please forgivei your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lastingj dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles,k and no wrongdoingl will be found in you as long as you live. 29 Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life,m the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurln away as from the pocket of a sling.o 30 When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him rulerp over Israel, 31 my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, rememberq your servant.”r

32 David said to Abigail, “Praises be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. 33 May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshedt this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. 34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabalu would have been left alive by daybreak.”

35 Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and grantedv your request.”