I Samuel 25:18
The Scripture
(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.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
Samuel died and all Israel mourned him, and afterward the wealthy but churlish Nabal insulted David's request for provisions, provoking David to march against him in anger. Nabal's wise wife Abigail intervened with gifts and humble words to avert bloodshed, and after Nabal died of a stroke ten days later, David took her as his wife.
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