1Samuel:21-22
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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 ?
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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 .
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Now therefore what is under thine hand ?
give me five loaves of bread in mine hand ,
or what there is present .
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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 .
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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 .
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So the priest gave him hallowed bread :
for there was no bread there but the shewbread lechem #,
that was taken from before the LORD ,
to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away .
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Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day ,
detained before the LORD ;
and his name was Doeg Do #
eg #,
an Edomite ,
the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul Sha #
uwl #.
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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 kings business required haste .
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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 .
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And David arose ,
and fled that day for fear of Saul Sha #
uwl #,
and went to Achish the king of Gath .
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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 ?
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And David laid up these words in his heart ,
and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath .
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And he changed his behaviour before them ,
and feigned himself mad in their hands ,
and scrabbled on the doors of the gate sha #
ar #,
and let his spittle fall down upon his beard .
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Then said Achish unto his servants ,
Lo ,
ye see the man is mad :
wherefore then have ye brought him to me ?
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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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David therefore departed thence ,
and escaped to the cave Adullam :
and when his brethren and all his fathers house heard it ,
they went down thither to him .
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And every one that was in distress ,
and every one that was in debt ,
and every one that was discontented mar #,
gathered themselves unto him ;
and he became a captain over them :
and there were with him about four hundred men .
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And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab Mow #
ab #:
and he said unto the king of Moab Mow #
ab #,
Let my father and my mother ,
I pray thee ,
come forth ,
and be with you ,
till I know what God will do for me .
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And he brought them before the king of Moab Mow #
ab #:
and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold .
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And the prophet Gad said unto David ,
Abide not in the hold ;
depart ,
and get thee into the land of Judah .
Then David departed ,
and came into the forest of Hareth .
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When Saul heard that David was discovered ,
and the men that were with him , (
now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah ,
having his spear in his hand ,
and all his servants were standing about him ;)
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Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him ,
Hear now ,
ye Benjamites Ben-y @
miyniy #;
will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards ,
and make you all captains of thousands ,
and captains of hundreds me #
ah #;
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That all of you have conspired against me ,
and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse ,
and there is none of you that is sorry for me ,
or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me ,
to lie in wait ,
as at this day ?
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Then answered Doeg the Edomite ,
which was set over the servants of Saul Sha #
uwl #,
and said ,
I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob ,
to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub .
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And he enquired of the LORD for him ,
and gave him victuals ,
and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine .
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Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest ,
the son of Ahitub ,
and all his fathers house ,
the priests that were in Nob :
and they came all of them to the king .
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And Saul said ,
Hear now ,
thou son of Ahitub .
And he answered ,
Here I am ,
my lord .
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And Saul said unto him ,
Why have ye conspired against me ,
thou and the son of Jesse ,
in that thou hast given him bread ,
and a sword ,
and hast enquired of God for him ,
that he should rise against me ,
to lie in wait ,
as at this day ?
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Then Ahimelech answered the king ,
and said ,
And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David ,
which is the kings son in law ,
and goeth at thy bidding mishma #
ath #,
and is honourable in thine house ?
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Did I then begin to enquire of God for him ?
be it far from me :
let not the king impute any thing unto his servant ,
nor to all the house of my father :
for thy servant knew nothing of all this ,
less or more .
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And the king said ,
Thou shalt surely die ,
Ahimelech ,
thou ,
and all thy fathers house .
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And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him ,
Turn ,
and slay the priests of the LORD ;
because their hand also is with David ,
and because they knew when he fled ,
and did not shew it to me .
But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD .
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And the king said to Doeg Do #
eg #,
Turn thou ,
and fall upon the priests .
And Doeg the Edomite turned ,
and he fell upon the priests ,
and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod .
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And Nob ,
the city of the priests ,
smote he with the edge of the sword ,
both men and women ,
children and sucklings ,
and oxen ,
and asses ,
and sheep ,
with the edge of the sword .
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And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub ,
named Abiathar ,
escaped ,
and fled after David .
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And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORDS priests .
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And David said unto Abiathar ,
I knew it that day ,
when Doeg the Edomite was there ,
that he would surely tell Saul Sha #
uwl #:
I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy fathers house .
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Abide thou with me ,
fear not :
for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life :
but with me thou shalt be in safeguard .
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Then they told David ,
saying ,
Behold ,
the Philistines fight against Keilah Q @#
iylah #,
and they rob the threshingfloors .