American Standard Version
"So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words. "
— 1 Samuel 25:12, American Standard Version
“So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.”
“So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.”
“So David’s servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David all these things.”
“So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came and told him all the words that he said.”
“So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.”
“So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.”
And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I know not whence they are?
So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.
But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields: