Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
Nabal is introduced here, though not by name, as a very rich man whose residence was in Carmel, but whose great flocks of sheep and goats were in the wilderness of Maon.  "Carmel is the modern Kermel, between Ziph and Maon."[5]  Of course, this is a different Carmel from Mount Carmel on the Mediterranean coast.