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1 Samuel 21
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1And David comes to Nomba to Abimelech the priest: and Abimelech was amazed at meeting him, and said to him, Why [are] you alone, and nobody with you?
1Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”
2And David said to the priest, The king gave me a command today, and said to me, Let no one know the matter on which I send you, and concerning which I have charged you: and I have charged my servants [to be] in the place that is called, The faithfulness of God, Phellani Maemoni.
2David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’
3And now if there are under your handfive loaves, give into my hand what is ready.
3Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
4And the priest answered David, and said, There are no common loaves under my hand, for I have none but holy loaves: if the young men have been kept at least from women, then they shall eat [them].
4The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
5And David answered the priest, and said to him, Yes, we have been kept from women for three days: when I came forth for the journey all the young men were purified; but this expedition is unclean, therefore it shall be sanctified this day because of my weapons.
5David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
6So Abimelech the priest gave him the show bread; for there were no loaves there, but only the presence loaves which had been removed from the presence of the Lord, in order that hot bread should be set on, on the day on which he took them.
6So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
7And there was there on that day one of Saul's servants detained before the Lord, and his name [was] Doec the Syrian, tending the mules of Saul.
7Now 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.
8And David said to Abimelech, See if there is here under your hand spear or sword, for I have not brought in my hand my sword or my weapons , for the word of the king was urgent.
8David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
9And the priest said, Beholdthe sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck in the valley of Ela; and it is wrapped in a cloth: if you will take it, take it for yourself, for there is no other except it here. And David said, Behold, there is none like it; give it me.
9The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it, for there is no other except that here.” David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.”
10And he gave it him; and David arose, and fled in that day from he presence of Saul: and David came to Anchus king of Geth.
10David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
11And the servants of Anchus said to him, [Is] not this David the king of the land? Did not the dancing women begin the song to him , saying, Saul has struck his thousand, and David his ten thousands?
11The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”
12And David laid up the words in his heart, and was greatly afraid of Anchus king of Geth.
12David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13And he changed his appearance before him, and feigned himself a false character in that day; and drummed upon the doors of the city, and used extravagant gestures with his hands, and fell against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.
13He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
14And Anchus said to his servants, Behold! you⌃ see the man [is] mad: why have you⌃ brought him in to me?
14Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?
15[Am] I in lack of madmen, that you⌃ have brought him in to me to play the madman ? He shall not come into the house.
15Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”