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:
"This would seem to be an instance of negotiation with an invitation to Nabal to enter into a regulated covenant with David." [Note: D. J. Wiseman, "’Is it peace?’-Covenant and Diplomacy," Vetus Testamentum 32:3 (1982):318.] 