1SA-21:1  Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and

Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him,

Why

[art] thou alone, and no man with thee?

1SA-21:2  And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath

commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know

any

thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have

commanded thee: and I have appointed [my] servants to such and

such a

place.

1SA-21:3  Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five

[loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

1SA-21:4  And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no

common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the

young men have kept themselves at least from women.

1SA-21:5  And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a

truth

women [have been] kept from us about these three days, since I

came

out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and [the bread

is] in

a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the

vessel.

1SA-21:6  So the priest gave him hallowed [bread]: for there was

no

bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the

LORD, to

put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

1SA-21:7  Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there

that

day, detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an

Edomite,

the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.

1SA-21:8  And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here

under

thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword

nor my

weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

1SA-21:9  And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the

Philistine,

whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here]

wrapped

in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it]:

for

[there is] no other save that here. And David said, [There is]

none

like that; give it me.

1SA-21:10  And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul,

and

went to Achish the king of Gath.

1SA-21:11  And the servants of Achish said unto him, [Is] not

this

David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of

him in

dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten

thousands?

1SA-21:12  And David laid up these words in his heart, and was

sore

afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

1SA-21:13  And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned

himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the

gate,

and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

1SA-21:14  Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the

man is

mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me?

1SA-21:15  Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this

[fellow]

to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come

into my

house?



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