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David
Takes Consecrated Bread |
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| 1 Samuel 21:1 |
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Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest;
and Ahimelech came trembling to meet David and said to him, "Why are you alone
and no one with you?" |
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| 1 Samuel 21:2 |
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David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king
has commissioned me with a matter and has said to me, 'Let no one know anything
about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commissioned
you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place.' |
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| 1 Samuel 21:3 |
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Now therefore, what do you have on hand? Give
me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found." |
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| 1 Samuel 21:4 |
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The priest answered David and said, "There is
no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men
have kept themselves from women." |
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| 1 Samuel 21:5 |
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David answered the priest and said to him, "Surely
women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the vessels of the
young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today
will their vessels be holy?" |
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| 1 Samuel 21:6 |
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So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for
there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from
before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away. |
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| 1 Samuel 21:7 |
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Now one of the servants of Saul was there that
day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of
Saul's shepherds. |
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| 1 Samuel 21:8 |
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David said to Ahimelech, "Now is there not a
spear or a sword on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me,
because the king's matter was urgent." |
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| 1 Samuel 21:9 |
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Then the priest said, "The sword of Goliath
the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in
a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. For there
is no other except it here." And David said, "There is none like it; give it to
me." |
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| 1 Samuel 21:10 |
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Then David arose and fled that day from Saul,
and went to Achish king of Gath. |
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| 1 Samuel 21:11 |
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But the servants of Achish said to him, "Is
this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing of this one as they danced,
saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" |
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| 1 Samuel 21:12 |
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David took these words to heart and greatly
feared Achish king of Gath. |
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| 1 Samuel 21:13 |
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So he disguised his sanity before them, and
acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let
his saliva run down into his beard. |
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| 1 Samuel 21:14 |
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Then Achish said to his servants, "Behold, you
see the man behaving as a madman. Why do you bring him to me? |
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| 1 Samuel 21:15 |
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Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this
one to act the madman in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?" |
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