נָבָל

His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.

and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.