As Ammon and the other servants return with the flocks, Ammon has the other servants keep the animals together, and Ammon goes to deal with the men who appear to be ready to scatter them again.
Another clue that the intruders were not thieves is that they waited at the waters of Sebus to see what would happen again. They hadn’t found some of the animals and taken off with them. They stayed, without any evident result of their raid.
They certainly see Ammon coming, but they know that they outnumber him, and so they are unafraid. The results of Ammon’s defiance will be unexpected for all save perhaps Ammon himself, who appears to have gone forth in the knowledge and comfort that the Lord had already given him.