And when David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
And it came to pass after two years that the sheep of Absalom were shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman; but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill-natured. And he was of the house of Caleb.
He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.