1 Samuel 25:10-17

10But Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “1Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master. 11Shall I then 2take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men 3whose origin I do not know?” 12So David’s young men retraced their way and went back; and they came and told him according to all these words. 13David said to his men, “Each of you gird on his sword.” So each man girded on his sword. And David also girded on his sword, and about 4four hundred men went up behind David while two hundred 5stayed with the baggage.

14But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to 67greet our master, and he scorned them. 15Yet the men were very good to us, and we were not 8insulted, nor did we miss anything 9as long as we went about with them, while we were in the fields. 1610They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep. 17Now therefore, know and 11consider what you should do, for evil is plotted against our master and against all his household; and he is such a 12worthless man that no one can speak to him.”