1 Samuel 25:20

20 {And then}, [as] she [was] riding on the donkey and [was] going down the ravine of the mountain, David and his men [were] coming down to meet her, and she met them.

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 Then Abigail {quickly took} two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put [them] on the donkeys.

19 Then she said to her servants, "Go ahead before me; look, I am coming after you," but she did not tell her husband Nabal.

20 {And then}, [as] she [was] riding on the donkey and [was] going down the ravine of the mountain, David and his men [were] coming down to meet her, and she met them.

21 Now David had said, "Surely {in vain} I guarded all that this fellow had in the desert. And nothing was missed of all that [was] his, but he returned evil against me in place of good!

22 {May God severely punish the enemies of David} and again do thus if I leave behind {anything that is his} until the morning, [not even] {one male}!"

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "And it happened"