Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Samuel 25:19
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and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
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She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.
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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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1 Samuel 25
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 said, “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.
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