Bible, King James Version
1_Samuel
1Sam.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?
[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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