1 Samuel 25:20

20 She was riding her donkey around a bend on a hillside when suddenly she met David and his men coming toward her.

1 Samuel 25:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 25:20

And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass
After her servants:

that she came down, by the covert of the hill;
by the side of it, which was covered with bushes, and she rode among them, in a way that led through them, and so was not seen by David and his men; or by the shadow of the hill, toward the bottom of it, where by reason of that, and the opposite hill, it was darkish, and they could not see each other:

and, behold, David and his men came down against her;
came down a hill opposite to that she came down:

and she met them;
in the valley between two hills.

1 Samuel 25:20 In-Context

18 Abigail quickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread, two leather bags full of wine, five roasted sheep, two bushels of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dried figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

19 Then she said to the servants, "You go on ahead and I will follow you." But she said nothing to her husband.

20 She was riding her donkey around a bend on a hillside when suddenly she met David and his men coming toward her.

21 David had been thinking, "Why did I ever protect that fellow's property out here in the wilderness? Not a thing that belonged to him was stolen, and this is how he pays me back for the help I gave him!

22 May God strike me dead if I don't kill every last one of those men before morning!"