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1 Samuel 21

David Takes Consecrated Bread

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Then David came to  aNob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech  bcame trembling to meet David and said to him, "Why are you alone and no one with you?"

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David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commissioned me with a matter and has said to me, ` aLet no one know anything about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commissioned you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place.'

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"Now therefore, what  1do you have on hand? Give  2me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found."

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The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread  1on hand, but there is  aconsecrated bread; if only the young men have  bkept themselves from women."

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David answered the priest and said to him, " aSurely women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the  bvessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today will  1their vessels be holy?"

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So  athe priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the  bbread of the Presence which was removed from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

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Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was  aDoeg the Edomite, the  bchief of Saul's shepherds.

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David said to Ahimelech, "Now is there not a spear or a sword  1on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons  2with me, because the king's matter was urgent."

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Then the priest said, " aThe sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you  1killed  bin the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. For there is no other except it here." And David said, "There is none like it; give it to me."

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Then David arose and fled that day from Saul, and went to  aAchish king of Gath.

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But the  aservants of Achish said to him, "Is this not David the king of the land?  bDid they not sing of this one as they danced, saying, `Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?"

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David  atook these words  1to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath.

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So he  adisguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard.

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Then Achish said to his servants, "Behold, you see the man behaving as a madman. Why do you bring him to me?

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"Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?"



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