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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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
; 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?
CHAPTER SAMUEL 22
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all
his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.
2
And every one
that was
in distress,
and every one that
was
in debt, and every one
that was
discontented, gathered themselves unto
him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
3
And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father
and my mother, I pray thee, come forth,
and be
with you, till I know what God will do for me.
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