◄ 1 Samuel 25:19 ►
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Good News Translation
Then she said to the servants, "You go on ahead and I will follow you." But she said nothing to her husband.

New Revised Standard Version
and said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Contemporary English Version
and told her servants, "Take this on ahead, and I'll catch up with you." She didn't tell her husband Nabal what she was doing.

New American Bible
She then said to her servants, “Go on ahead; I will follow you.” But to her husband Nabal she said nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.

Go

Genesis 32:16,20 And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove. . . .

But

Proverbs 31:11,12,27 The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils. . . .

Context
Abigail Intercedes for Nabal
18Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses: 19And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.20And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them.…
Cross References
Genesis 32:16
And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.

Genesis 32:20
And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.

1 Samuel 25:20
And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them.

1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.

1 Samuel 25:18
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