When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
"Shall I take my bread and my water ...and give it ..."  (1 Samuel 25:11)?  Nabal's mention of water in this verse does not please some critics who insist that the word should be "wine."  Based upon the Septuagint (LXX) rendition of the place, which is followed by the Jerusalem Bible and the New International Version, H. P. Smith changed the verse, making it read, "Must I take my bread and my wine ... etc."[10] This is precisely the type of meddling with the text which this writer finds frequently unacceptable.  Yes, there's no doubt that Nabal had plenty of wine and that he drank enough of it that it required a whole day and night for him to become sober; and it is a fact that wine was usually used at such feasts instead of water.  But none of these things nullifies the message Nabal sent back to David, which, in effect, declared that, he would not even give David and his men a drink of water, much less any other things he mentioned.  The text tells us what Nabal said, not what the customary beverage was at such feasts.