1 Samuel 25:10-17

10“Who is David?” Nabal answered David’s servants. “Who is Jesse’s son? So many servants nowadays are leaving their masters.

11Should I take my bread, my water, and my meat that I butchered for my shearers and give them to men coming from who knows where?”

12David’s young men returned and told him all this.

13“Each of you put on your swords!” David told his men. And everyone, including David, put on his sword. About four hundred men went with David, while two hundred men stayed with the supplies.

14One of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet our master, who yelled at them.

15Those men were very good to us. They didn’t mistreat us, and we found that nothing was missing wherever we went with them when we were in the fields.

16They were a wall protecting us day and night as long as we were watching the sheep near them.

17Now, consider what you should do because our master and his whole household are doomed. And he’s such a worthless man that it’s useless to talk to him.”