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## 1 Samuel 25:20 in Context (Verses 17–23 KJV)
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/17) Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he *is such* a son of Belial, that *a man* cannot speak to him.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/18) ¶ Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched *corn*, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid *them* on asses.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/19) And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/20) And it was *so, as* she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/21) Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this *fellow* hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that *pertained* unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/22) So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that *pertain* to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/23) And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
 
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