and David, who was in the wilderness, heard about it,
Someone told Tamar that her father-in-law was going to Timnah to shear his sheep.
Two years later Absalom was having his sheep sheared at Baal Hazor, near the town of Ephraim, and he invited all the king's sons to be there.
so he sent ten young men with orders to go to Carmel, find Nabal, and give him his greetings.