8. Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favour in your eyes; for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.’”
9. When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.
10. Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
11. Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”
12. So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him all these words.
13. David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!”Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.
14. But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them.
15. But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.
16. They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17. Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”