09:025:008 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee.  Wherefore let the
           young men find favour in thine eyes:  for we come in a good
           day:  give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto
           thy servants, and to thy son David.

09:025:009 And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according
           to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

09:025:010 And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David?
           and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days
           that break away every man from his master.

09:025:011 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I
           have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know
           not whence they be?

09:025:012 So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and
           came and told him all those sayings.

09:025:013 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. 
           And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded
           on his sword:  and there went up after David about four hundred
           men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

09:025:014 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying,
           Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute
           our master; and he railed on them.

09:025:015 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt,
           neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant
           with them, when we were in the fields: 

09:025:016 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while
           we were with them keeping the sheep.

09:025:017 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is
           determined against our master, and against all his household: 
           for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to
           him.

09:025:018 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two
           bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five
           measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins,
           and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

09:025:019 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I
           come after you.  But she told not her husband Nabal.

09:025:020 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by
           the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came
           down against her; and she met them.

09:025:021 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this
           fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of
           all that pertained unto him:  and he hath requited me evil for
           good.