1 Samuel 25:19

And she said to her servants, Go on before me, and behold I come after you: but she told not her husband.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

In Context

18And Abigail hastened, and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five ephahs of fine flour, and one homer of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them upon asses.

20And it came to pass when she had mounted her ass and was going down by the covert of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down to meet her, and she met them.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:16milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.

Genesis 32:20And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him;

1 Samuel 14:1And when a certain day arrived, Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to Messab of the Philistines that is on the other side yonder; but he told not his father.

Proverbs 31:27But she opens her mouth wisely, and according to law. 1

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 25:19-32

Abigail Meets David. ( b. c. 1057.) 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 a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. 19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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