David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
"The story of the stupid sheepherder with a beautiful and intelligent wife is one of the most delightful in Samuel. Its purpose is to lay one more brick in the edifice of David’s legitimacy, however, and not to entertain." [Note: Heater, "Young David . . .," p. 56.] 