¹⁴ One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings,^(A) but he hurled insults at them. ¹⁵ Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat^(B) us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.^{(C) 16} Night and day they were a wall^(D) around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. ¹⁷ Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked^(E) man that no one can talk to him.”

² Now bands of raiders^(A) from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.

³ She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet^(A) who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”