Nabal
    foolish, a descendant of Caleb who dwelt at Maon (1 Sam. 25),
    the modern Main, 7 miles south-east of Hebron. He was "very
    great, and he had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats...but the man was
    churlish and evil in his doings." During his wanderings David
    came into that district, and hearing that Nabal was about to
    shear his sheep, he sent ten of his young men to ask "whatsoever
    cometh unto thy hand for thy servants." Nabal insultingly
    resented the demand, saying, "Who is David, and who is the son
    of Jesse?" (1 Sam. 25:10, 11). One of the shepherds that stood
    by and saw the reception David's messengers had met with,
    informed Abigail, Nabal's wife, who at once realized the danger
    that threatened her household. She forthwith proceeded to the
    camp of David, bringing with her ample stores of provisions
    (25:18). She so courteously and persuasively pled her cause that
    David's anger was appeased, and he said to her, "Blessed be the
    Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me."
      On her return she found her husband incapable from drunkenness
    of understanding the state of matters, and not till the
    following day did she explain to him what had happened. He was
    stunned by a sense of the danger to which his conduct had
    exposed him. "His heart died within him, and he became as a
    stone." and about ten days after "the Lord smote Nabal that he
    died" (1 Sam. 25:37, 38). Not long after David married Abigail
    (q.v.).
 Nabal, fool; senseless