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Ask your servants[a] and they will tell you! Let the young men[b] find favor in your eyes because we have come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have on hand[c] for your servants and for your son David.”

So David’s young men came and they spoke all these words to Nabal in the name of David. Then they waited. 10 But Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today, there are many servants breaking away from the presence of their masters.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:8 Or “young men”
  2. 1 Samuel 25:8 Or “the servants”; “young men” is used here to connect with v. 5
  3. 1 Samuel 25:8 Literally “what your hand finds”