1 Samuel 25:3 BBE

¹  And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.

²  Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.

³  Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.

⁴  And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.

⁵  And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;