11Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?
12So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.
13And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.
14But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.
15But these men have been very good to us; they did us no wrong and nothing of ours was touched while we were with them in the fields:
16But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.
17So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.
