It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
God struck Nabal dead for his pride and opposition to the Lord’s anointed. God would do the same to Saul for the same reasons. Nabal’s death undoubtedly encouraged David to believe that God would take vengeance on Saul. David’s experiences with Nabal were a microcosm of all that he had been enduring for so long with Saul, another fool. Saul admitted he was a fool in 1 Samuel 26:21.