Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:2
While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.
- 1 Samuel 25:4
Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:7
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”