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Now David came to Nob ,
to Ahimelech the priest .
And Ahimelech was afraid when he met David ,
and said to him , "
Why are you alone ,
and no one is with you ?"
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So David said to Ahimelech the priest , "
The king has ordered me on some business ,
and said to me , "
Do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you ,
or what I have commanded you .'
And I have directed my young men to such and such a place .
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Now therefore ,
what have you on hand ?
Give me five loaves of bread in my hand ,
or whatever can be found ."
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And the priest answered David and said , "
There is no common bread on hand ;
but there is holy bread ,
if the young men have at least kept themselves from women ."
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Then David answered the priest ,
and said to him , "
Truly ,
women have been kept from us about three days since I came out .
And the vessels of the young men are holy ,
and the bread is in effect common ,
even though it was consecrated in the vessel this day ."
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So the priest gave him holy bread ;
for there was no bread there but the showbread which had been taken from before the LORD ,
in order to put hot bread in its place on 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 ,
an Edomite ,
the chief of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul .
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And David said to Ahimelech , "
Is there not here on hand a spear or a sword ?
For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me ,
because the king '
s business required haste ."
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So the priest said , "
The sword of Goliath the Philistine ,
whom you killed in the Valley of Elah ,
there it is ,
wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod .
If you will take that ,
take it .
For there is no other except that one here ."
And David said , "
There is none like it ;
give it to me ."
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Then David arose and fled that day from before Saul ,
and went to Achish the king of Gath .
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And the servants of Achish said to him , "
Is this not David the king of the land ?
Did they not sing of him to one another in dances ,
saying : "
Saul has slain his thousands ,
And David his ten thousands '?"
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Now David took these words to heart ,
and was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath .
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So he changed his behavior before them ,
pretended madness in their hands ,
scratched on the doors of the gate ,
and let his saliva fall down on his beard .
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Then Achish said to his servants , "
Look ,
you see the man is insane .
Why have you brought him to me ?
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Have I need of madmen ,
that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence ?
Shall this fellow come into my house ?"