1 Samuel 25:20

20 Abigail rode her donkey into a mountain valley. There she saw David and his men. They were coming down 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 didn't waste any time. She got 200 loaves of bread and two bottles of wine. The bottles were made out of animal skins. She got five sheep that were ready to be cooked. She got a bushel of grain that had been cooked. She got 100 raisin cakes. And she got 200 cakes of pressed figs. She loaded all of it on the backs of donkeys.

19 Then she told her servants, "Go on ahead. I'll follow you." But she didn't tell her husband Nabal about it.

20 Abigail rode her donkey into a mountain valley. There she saw David and his men. They were coming down toward her.

21 David had just said, "Everything we've done hasn't been worth a thing! I watched over that fellow's property in the desert. I made sure none of it was stolen. But he has paid me back evil for good.

22 I won't leave even one of his men alive until morning. If I do, may God punish me greatly!"