But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
For most certainly, as the LORD God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any lad that waters the wall.
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, whether small or great, until the morning light.