12. David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.
13. David said to his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.
14. One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them.
15. Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.
16. Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.