When Samuel reached Saul, Saul greeted him, “The Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”

So David sent ten servants, telling them, “Go up to Carmel. When you get to Nabal, greet him for me.

One of Nabal’s servants told his wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he just yelled at them.

David reached the two hundred men who were too exhausted to follow him and had stayed behind at the Besor ravine. They came out to greet him and the troops who were with him. When David approached them, he asked how they were doing.