1 Samuel 21:1-10

David and the Holy Bread

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Ch 21:2 in Hebrew
Then David came to bNob, to cAhimelech the priest. And Ahimelech dcame to meet David, trembling and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”
2And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. 3Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.” 4And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is eholy breadfif the young men have kept themselves from women.” 5And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?” 6So the priest gave him gthe holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, hwhich is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was iDoeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.

8Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.” 9And the priest said, j“The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in kthe Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”

David Flees to Gath

10And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to lAchish the king of Gath.

1 Samuel 22:1-10

David at the Cave of Adullam

1David departed from there and escaped to mthe cave of nAdullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. 2 oAnd everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul,
Or discontented
gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him qabout four hundred men.

3And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay
Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew go out
with you, till I know what God will do for me.”
4And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. 5Then the prophet sGad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.

Saul Kills the Priests at Nob

6Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under tthe tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him. 7And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse ugive every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, 8that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me vwhen my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you wis sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, xto lie in wait, as at this day.” 9Then answered yDoeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse zcoming to Nob, to aaAhimelech the son of Ahitub, 10 aband he inquired of the Lord for him and acgave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

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