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## 1 Samuel 25:21-22 in Context (Verses 18–25 KJV)
 
 [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,
 
 [24 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/24) And fell at his feet, and said, Upon 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.*
 
 [25 ](/kjv/1-samuel/25/25) Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man 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.**
 
[1 Samuel 24](/kjv/1-samuel/24) [1 Samuel 26](/kjv/1-samuel/26)

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