5. so he sent ten young men, instructing them: “Go up to Carmel. Pay Nabal a visit and greet him in my name.
6. Say to him, ‘Peace be with you, my brother, and with your family, and with all who belong to you.
7. I have just heard that shearers are with you. Now, when your shepherds were with us, we did them no injury, neither did they miss anything while they were in Carmel.
8. Ask your servants and they will tell you. Look kindly on these young men, since we come at a festival time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can.’”
9. When David’s young men arrived, they delivered the entire message to Nabal in David’s name, and then waited.
10. But Nabal answered the servants of David: “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays there are many servants who run away from their masters.
11. Must I take my bread, my wine, my meat that I have slaughtered for my own shearers, and give them to men who come from who knows where?”