9. When David’s young men arrived, they delivered the entire message to Nabal in David’s name, and then waited.
10. But Nabal answered the servants of David: “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays there are many servants who run away from their masters.
11. Must I take my bread, my wine, my meat that I have slaughtered for my own shearers, and give them to men who come from who knows where?”
12. So David’s young men retraced their steps and on their return reported to him all that had been said.