Today's Bible Passage is "1 Samuel 21"
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David at Nob
1 David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when
he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with
you?”
2 David answered Ahimelech the priest, “The king charged me
with a certain matter and said to me, ‘No one is to know
anything about your mission and your instructions.’ As for my
men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. 3 Now then, what
do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can
find.”
4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any
ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread
here—provided the men have kept themselves from
women.”
5 David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as
usual whenever I set out. The men’s things are holy even on
missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”
6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no
bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from
before the LORD and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
7 Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained
before the LORD? he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s head
shepherd.
8 David asked Ahimelech, “Don’t you have a spear or
a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon,
because the king’s business was urgent.”
9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine,
whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a
cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here
but that one.”
David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
David
at Gath
10 That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
11 But the servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t
this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one they sing
about in their dances:
“ ‘Saul
has slain his thousands,
and David his tens of
thousands’?”
12 David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish
king of Gath.
13 So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in
their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the
gate and letting saliva run down his beard.
14 Achish said to his servants, “Look at the man! He is
insane! Why bring him to me?
15 Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to
carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my
house?”
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