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1Sa 25:10 Strong Concordance And Nabal [05037] answered [06030] David's [01732] servants [05650], and said [0559], Who is David [01732]? and who is the son [01121] of Jesse [03448]? there be many [07231] servants [05650] now a days [03117] that break away [06555] every man [0376] from [06440] his master [0113].
  King James And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
THE CHURLISH ANSWER PROVOKES HIM. (Sa1 25:10-13)

Nabal answered David's servants, . . . Who is David? &c.--Nabal's answer seems to indicate that the country was at the time in a loose and disorderly state. David's own good conduct, however, as well as the important services rendered by him and his men, were readily attested by Nabal's servants. The preparations of David to chastise his insolent language and ungrateful requital are exactly what would be done in the present day by Arab chiefs, who protect the cattle of the large and wealthy sheep masters from the attacks of the marauding border tribes or wild beasts. Their protection creates a claim for some kind of tribute, in the shape of supplies of food and necessaries, which is usually given with great good will and gratitude; but when withheld, is enforced as a right. Nabal's refusal, therefore, was a violation of the established usages of the place.
 
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10 And Nabal [05037] answered [06030] David's [01732] servants [05650], and said [0559], Who is David [01732]? and who is the son [01121] of Jesse [03448]? there be many [07231] servants [05650] now a days [03117] that break away [06555] every man [0376] from [06440] his master [0113].
11 Shall I then take [03947] my bread [03899], and my water [04325], and my flesh [02878] that I have killed [02873] for my shearers [01494], and give [05414] it unto men [0582], whom I know [03045] not whence they be?
12 So David's [01732] young men [05288] turned [02015] their way [01870], and went again [07725], and came [0935] and told [05046] him all those sayings [01697].
13 And David [01732] said [0559] unto his men [0582], Gird ye on [02296] every man [0376] his sword [02719]. And they girded on [02296] every man [0376] his sword [02719]; and David [01732] also girded on [02296] his sword [02719]: and there went up [05927] after [0310] David [01732] about four [0702] hundred [03967] men [0376]; and two hundred [03967] abode [03427] by the stuff [03627].
17 Now therefore know [03045] and consider [07200] what thou wilt do [06213]; for evil [07451] is determined [03615] against our master [0113], and against all his household [01004]: for he is such a son [01121] of Belial [01100], that a man cannot speak [01696] to him.