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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?
02 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.
03 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give
me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what
there is present.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
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08 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.
09 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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