gird you on every man his sword; and prepare to march and chastise Nabal for his insolence: and they girded on every man his sword; in obedience to David, and in vindication of his honour and their own: and David also girded on his sword; in order to march at the head of them, fired with indignation at the affront given him: and there went up after David about four hundred men; out of the six hundred he had with him, Sa1 23:13 , and two hundred abode by the stuff; the baggage in their camp; the Targum is, they"were left to watch the vessels;''the things necessary for their use, for the dressing of their food, their bedding, &c.