09:025:022 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.
09:025:023 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,
09:025:024 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.
09:025:025 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.
09:025:026 Now therefore, my lord, as the lord
liveth, and as thy soul
liveth,
seeing the lord hath withholden thee from coming
to
shed
blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand,
now
let
thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord,
be as
Nabal.
09:025:027 And now this blessing which thine handmaid
hath brought unto
my
lord, let it even be given unto the young men that
follow
my
lord.
09:025:028 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine
handmaid: for the
lord
will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my
lord
fighteth
the battles of the lord, and evil hath not been
found
in
thee all thy days.
09:025:029 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and
to seek thy soul: but
the
soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life
with
the
lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies,
them shall
he
sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
09:025:030 And it shall come to pass, when the lord
shall have done to my
lord
according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning
thee,
and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
09:025:031 That this shall be no grief unto thee,
nor offence of heart
unto
my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless,
or
that
my lord hath avenged himself: but when the lord
shall
have
dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
09:025:032 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the
lord God of Israel,
which
sent thee this day to meet me:
09:025:033 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed
be thou, which hast
kept
me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging
myself
with mine own hand.
09:025:034 For in very deed, as the lord God
of Israel liveth, which hath
kept
me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted
and
come
to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal
by
the
morning light any that pisseth against the wall.


