That’ll possibly handle Nabal, don’t you think? When you overdo something in our home, we have got a pronouncing, “You’re slaughtering a roach with a shotgun.” You kill the roach all right, but you blow the wall out at the same time.

Hey, no-one puts on a sword simply to have a consultation, so we have got a pretty brilliant idea what is going on thru David’s mind here. Honestly , this may be her chance to dump a nasty loser of a man. She gets word from the servants that David is going to complete him off.

She could say something religious like, “Oh, I better pray about this.” Those roaring hoofbeats are coming down the hill, and she’s in there praying, “Lord, take him swiftly. Of course, Nabal has set himself up for this. But one of the younger men told Abigail, Nabal’s better half, asserting, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wasteland to welcome our master, and he scorned them. Yet the men were excellent to us, and we weren’t insulted, nor did we miss anything so long as we went about with them, while we were in the fields. They used to be a wall to us both by night and by day, all of the time we were with them inclining the sheep.

Now know and consider what you must do, for malignant is plotted against our master and against all his household ; and he is a meaningless man that nobody can talk to him.” ( one Samuel 25:14–17 ).

Note the messengers come to Abigail, not to Nabal.