1Sa 21:2 | NETfull | STEP | David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ I have told my soldiers to wait at a certain place.

1 Samuel 21:2

2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ ^{▼▼ Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”} I have told my soldiers ^{▼▼ Heb “servants.”} to wait at a certain place. ^{▼▼ The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.}