Without any notable delay, David was at the head of 400 men hurrying through the wilderness toward Carmel. He was convinced of his mission and rehearsed the injustice. (ever been there?) "Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has repaid me evil for good. May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I leave one male of all who belong to him by morning light." They made there way down the side of a hill toward the valley floor at the bottom. It seems to have been a noisy band of testosterone - beards, sweat and all. Go David! Get him! Charge!
Suddenly, a woman appeared. She was ready for him, but he was not ready for her. She dismounted from her donkey, fell on her face before David, bowed down to the ground and fell at his feet. "On me, my lord, me . . this iniquity . . . " Panting and confused, the men looked to David. "Halt!" David was just accosted with wisdom. First, she went low. She immediately injects something new into the scene. It knocks the anger in David's heart off the throne. Then, Abigail diverts the target of David's anger from Nabal to herself. On me she says, on me. One woman stopped a small army!
