SEV Biblia, Chapter 25:9
Y cuando llegaron los criados de David, dijeron a Nabal todas estas palabras en nombre de David, y callaron.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. And when David’s young men came , etc.] To Carmel: they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David ; they delivered their message punctually and exactly, in the very words, or however according to the purport of them, in David’s name, as he enjoined them: and ceased : from speaking, waiting for Nabal’s answer; or “they rested” f499 , from the fatigues of their journey; which they did not until they had delivered their message to Nabal, and then they took the liberty to sit down and rest themselves; but the former sense seems best, and is preferred by Maimonides f500 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 2-11 - We should not have heard of Nabal, if nothing had passed between his and David. Observe his name, Nabal, "A fool;" so it signifies. Riche make men look great in the eye of the world; but to one that take right views, Nabal looked very mean. He had no honour or honesty; he was churlish, cross, and ill-humoured; evil in his doings, hard an oppressive; a man that cared not what fraud and violence he used it getting and saving. What little reason have we to value the wealth of this world, when so great a churl as Nabal abounds, and so good a ma as David suffers want!, David pleaded the kindness Nabal's shepherd had received. Considering that David's men were in distress and debt and discontented, and the scarcity of provisions, it was by goo management that they were kept from plundering. Nabal went into passion, as covetous men are apt to do, when asked for any thing thinking thus to cover one sin with another; and, by abusing the poor to excuse themselves from relieving them. But God will not thus be mocked. Let this help us to bear reproaches and misrepresentations with patience and cheerfulness, and make us easy under them; it has ofte been the lot of the excellent ones of the earth. Nabal insists much of the property he had in the provisions of his table. May he not do what he will with his own? We mistake, if we think we are absolute lords of what we have, and may do what we please with it. No; we are but stewards, and must use it as we are directed, remembering it is not ou own, but His who intrusted us with it.
Original Hebrew
ויבאו 935 נערי 5288 דוד 1732 וידברו 1696 אל 413 נבל 5037 ככל 3605 הדברים 1697 האלה 428 בשׁם 8034 דוד 1732 וינוחו׃ 5117
