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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?
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.
3 Now therefore what is under thine hand?
give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is
present.
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.
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.
6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread:
for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the
LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
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.
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.
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.
10 And David arose, and fled
that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
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?
12 And David laid up these words in his
heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
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.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo,
ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
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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