So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, [a]visit Nabal and greet him in my name; and thus you shall say, ‘[b]Have a long life, (A)peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. Now I have heard (B)that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them, (C)nor have they missed anything all the days they were in Carmel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:5 Lit go into
  2. 1 Samuel 25:6 Lit To life

So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health(A) to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!(B)

“‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat(C) them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.

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