⁷ Now, I’ve heard that the sheep shearers are with you. Now, your shepherds have been with us. We didn’t harm them, and they didn’t miss anything all the time they were in Carmel. ⁸ Ask your young men and they’ll tell you. Therefore let my^[a] young men find favor with you since we came on a special^[b] day. Please give whatever you have available to your servants and to your son David.’”

⁹ David’s young men came to Nabal and told him all this^[c] in David’s name, and then they waited.