¹⁰ And Nabal answered the servants of David and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today there are·​·many servants breaking· themselves ·off, each·​·man^◦ from before his lord.

³⁹ And David heard that Nabal was dead, and he said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has pleaded the plea of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept·​·back his servant from evil; and the evil of Nabal has Jehovah returned upon his head. And David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her to him to wife.