"... In general, 1 Samuel 25 contrasts the boorish Nabal, whose name means “fool” (1 Samuel 25:25), with his prudent wife Abigail, who is described as being “of good insight” and whom David praises, saying: “Blessed be your discretion”. The use of wisdom vocabulary in 1 Samuel 25 (“fool”; “insight, prudence”; “discretion”) suggests that the story might easily have attracted the attention of a wisdom teacher such as Ben Sira. The fact that here and in 6:16–17 Ben Sira clearly alludes to 1 Samuel 25 suggests that he understands the story of Nabal and Abigail as exemplifying his teaching on friendship. As a negative example, the foolish Nabal refuses to respond peacefully to David’s greeting (1 Samuel 25:6–11; compare Sirach 6:5) but rather engages in a dispute to disgrace David (1 Samuel 25:39; compare Sirach 6:9). As a positive example, the prudent Abigail responds to David in a friendly manner, offering gifts of food to David’s troops (1 Samuel 25:18–19) and gracious words to David himself (1 Samuel 25:24–31; compare Sirach 6:5), with the result that her friendliness eventually leads to marriage with David (1 Samuel 25:42) ..."