that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.
      6. She makes a tender of the present she had brought, but speaks of it as unworthy of David's acceptance, and therefore desires it may be given to the young men that followed him (1 Samuel 25:27; 1 Samuel 25:27), and particularly to those ten that were his messengers to Nabal, and whom he had treated so rudely.