June
14
1
Samuel 21, 22
1Sa
21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech
came to meet David trembling, and said to him, Why are you alone, and
no man with you?
1Sa
21:2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a
business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the
business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I
have appointed the young men to such and such a place.
1Sa
21:3 Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of
bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
1Sa
21:4 The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread
under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have
kept themselves from women.
1Sa
21:5 David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women
have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the
vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common
journey; how much more then today shall their vessels be holy?
1Sa
21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread;
for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from
before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1Sa
21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,
detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best
of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
1Sa
21:8 David said to Ahimelech, Isn't there here under your hand spear
or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me,
because the king's business required haste.
1Sa
21:9 The priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you
killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth
behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it; for there is no
other except that here. David said, There is none like that; give it
to me.
1Sa
21:10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to
Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa
21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the
king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in
dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten
thousands?' "
1Sa
21:12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of
Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa
21:13 He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad
in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his
spittle fall down on his beard.
1Sa
21:14 Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is
mad; why then have you brought him to me?
1Sa
21:15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play
the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
1Sa
22:1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of
Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it,
they went down there to him.
1Sa
22:2 Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and
everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he
became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred
men.
1Sa
22:3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of
Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, and
be with you, until I know what God will
do for me.
1Sa
22:4 He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived with
him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
1Sa
22:5 The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold;
depart, and go into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came
into the forest of Hereth.
1Sa
22:6 Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with
him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in
Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing
about him.
1Sa
22:7 Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you
Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and
vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of
hundreds,
1Sa
22:8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none
who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse,
and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that
my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at
this day?
1Sa
22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of
Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech
the son of Ahitub.
1Sa
22:10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, and gave him food, and gave him
the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
1Sa
22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of
Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and
they came all of them to the king.
1Sa
22:12 Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I
am, my lord.
1Sa
22:13 Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and
the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and
have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie
in wait, as at this day?
1Sa
22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your
servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and
is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
1Sa
22:15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from
me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the
house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less
or more.
1Sa
22:16 The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all
your father's house.
1Sa
22:17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill
the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and
because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the
servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the
priests of Yahweh.
1Sa
22:18 The king said to Doeg, Turn and attack the priests! Doeg the
Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that
day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
1Sa
22:19 Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of the
sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle
and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1Sa
22:20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named
Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
1Sa
22:21 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests.
1Sa
22:22 David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the
Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned
the death
of all the persons of your father's house.
1Sa
22:23 Stay with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks
your life: for with me you shall be in safeguard.