1 Samuel 25:8

WEB

Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'"

KJV

Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

Commentary

Ask thy young men, and they will show thee,.... The shepherds before mentioned, who kept their flocks hard by them: wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; the ten young men David sent to Nabal: for we are com e in a good day; a day in which Nabal made a feast for his shearers, as was usual then, and still is, see Sa2 13:23 ; and at such times as persons are generally cheerful and merry, so free and liberal, and as there were plenty of provisions, not only enough for the guests and shearers, but to spare, and there was no need for an increase of expense, it might upon the whole be concluded it was a proper time for David to apply for accommodations for himself and his men: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David; he did not request anything extraordinary of him, or to put him to any expense, but what was at hand, and he could spare, he prayed him to deliver to the young men he sent, for their use, and the use of other his servants, and particularly David, who styled himself his son, being of the same tribe with Nabal, and Nabal his senior.