1 Samuel 25:24–33

²⁴So she fell at his feet and said: “On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maidservant ⁶speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant. ²⁵Please, let not my lord ⁷regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: ⁸Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. ²⁶Now therefore, my lord, ^yas the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has ^zheld you back from coming to bloodshed and from ^aavenging ⁹yourself with your own hand, now then, ^blet your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal. ²⁷And now ^cthis present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. ²⁸Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For ^dthe Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord ^efights the battles of the Lord, ^fand evil is not found in you throughout your days. ²⁹Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my lord shall be ^gbound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall ^hsling out, as from the pocket of a sling. ³⁰And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ⁱruler over Israel, ³¹that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.”

³²Then David said to Abigail: ^j“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! ³³And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have ^kkept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.