1 Samuel 25:10-17

10Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is Jesse’s son? Many slaves these days are running away from their masters.

11Am I supposed to take my bread, my water, and my meat that I butchered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t know where they are from.”

12David’s young men retraced their steps. When they returned to him, they reported all these words.

13He said to his men, “All of you, put on your swords!” So each man put on his sword, and David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

14One of Nabal’s young men informed Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed at them.

15The men treated us very well. When we were in the field, we weren’t harassed and nothing of ours was missing the whole time we were living among them.

16They were a wall around us, both day and night, the entire time we were with them herding the sheep.

17Now consider carefully what you should do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”