1 Samuel 25:24–33

²⁴And fell at his feet, and said, ^fUpon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ^†audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. ²⁵Let not my lord, I pray thee, ^†regard this ^gman of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; ^||Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. ²⁶Now therefore, my lord, ^has the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath ⁱwithholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from ^†avenging thyself with thine own hand, now ^jlet thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. ²⁷And now this ^||blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that ^†follow my lord. ²⁸I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord ^ka sure house; because my lord ^lfighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. ²⁹Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he ^msling out, ^†as out of the middle of a sling. ³⁰And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; ³¹That this shall be ^†no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid. ³²And David said to Abigail, ⁿBlessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: ³³And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast ^okept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.