ukjv - 1Samuel:21-22

ukjv@1Samuel:21:1 @ Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why are you alone, and no man with you?

ukjv@1Samuel:21:2 @ And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabouts I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:3 @ Now therefore what is under yours hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:4 @ 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.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:5 @ And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Truthfully 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.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:6 @ So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:7 @ 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.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:8 @ And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under yours hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:9 @ And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew 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 save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:10 @ And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:11 @ 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 has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

ukjv@1Samuel:21:12 @ And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:13 @ And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scratch on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

ukjv@1Samuel:21:14 @ Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, all of you see the man is mad: wherefore then have all of you brought him to me?

ukjv@1Samuel:21:15 @ Have I need of mad men, that all of you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

ukjv@1Samuel:22:1 @ David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:2 @ And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:3 @ And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray you, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:4 @ And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:5 @ And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:6 @ 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;)

ukjv@1Samuel:22:7 @ Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, all of you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;

ukjv@1Samuel:22:8 @ That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that shows me that my son has made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows unto me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

ukjv@1Samuel:22:9 @ Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:10 @ And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:11 @ Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:12 @ And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:13 @ And Saul said unto him, Why have all of you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

ukjv@1Samuel:22:14 @ Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goes at your bidding, and is honourable in yours house?

ukjv@1Samuel:22:15 @ 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 your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:16 @ And the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:17 @ 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 show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:18 @ And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, 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.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:19 @ And Nob, the city of the priests, stroke he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:20 @ And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:21 @ And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the LORD's priests.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:22 @ And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it 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.

ukjv@1Samuel:22:23 @ Abide you with me, fear not: for he that seeks my life seeks your life: but with me you shall be in safeguard.

ukjv@1Samuel:23:1 @ Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing floors.