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1 Samuel 21:4-14

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4 The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is 1consecrated bread; if only the young men have 2kept themselves from women."
5 David answered the priest and said to him, "3Surely * women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the 4vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much * more * then today will their vessels be holy?"
6 So 5the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the 6bread of the Presence which was removed from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.
7 Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was 7Doeg the Edomite, the 8chief of Saul's shepherds.
8 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."
9 Then the priest said, "9The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed 10in 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."
10 Then David arose and fled that day from Saul, and went to 11Achish king of Gath.
11 But the 12servants of Achish said to him, "Is this not David the king of the land? 13Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands '?"
12 David 14took these words to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath.
13 So he 15disguised 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.
14 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 21:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 21

This chapter relates that David went to Nob, and pretending he was on secret business for the king, got shewbread, and the sword of Goliath, from Ahimelech the priest, 1Sa 21:1-9; and that passing from thence to Gath, where he was known, through fear feigned himself mad, and so escaped from thence, 1Sa 21:10-15.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

  • 1. Exodus 25:30; Leviticus 24:5-9; Matthew 12:4
  • 2. Exodus 19:15
  • 3. Exodus 19:14, 15
  • 4. 1 Thessalonians 4:4
  • 5. Matthew 12:3, 4; Luke 6:3, 4
  • 6. Leviticus 24:5-9
  • 7. 1 Samuel 14:47; 1 Samuel 22:9; Ps 52: title
  • 8. 1 Chronicles 27:29, 31
  • 9. 1 Samuel 17:51, 54
  • 10. 1 Samuel 17:2
  • 11. Ps 34: title
  • 12. Ps 56: title
  • 13. 1 Samuel 18:7; 1 Samuel 29:5
  • 14. Luke 2:19
  • 15. Ps 34: title

Footnotes 6

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