“When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Samuel 25 contains 44 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.