King James Version (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.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 25
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.
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.
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
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.
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.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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