1 Samuel 25:8-10

Amplified Bible

⁸Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your sight [and be well-treated], for we have come on a ^[a]good (festive) day. ^[b]Please, give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”

⁹When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David; then they waited. ¹⁰But Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? ^[c]There are many servants today, each of whom is breaking away from his master.

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 25:8 The time of shearing was a time of celebration and generosity.
1 Samuel 25:8 David and his men had given protection to Nabal’s flocks and shepherds, and it was appropriate for David to ask for compensation for this service.
1 Samuel 25:10 Nabal was insulting David and his men by implying that as far as he was concerned, they could be nothing but runaway slaves.