As she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.
Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Urge the animal on; do not hold back for me unless I tell you.”
and said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Now David had said, “Surely it was in vain that I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; but he has returned me evil for good.