1 Samuel 21:2

2 Respondeu Davi ao sacerdote Aimeleque: O rei me encomendou um negócio, e me disse: Ninguém saiba deste negócio pelo qual eu te enviei, e o qual te ordenei. Quanto aos mancebos, apontei-lhes tal e tal lugar.

1 Samuel 21:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 21:2

And David said unto Ahimelech the priest
In reply to his question, and to account for such an appearance he made without an equipage:

the king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, let no
man know anything of the business thereabout I send thee, and what I
have commanded thee;
he pretended he was upon a secret expedition, by the order of Saul, which none were to know of, no, not his own servants, and that was the reason why he came to him alone; which was a downright lie, and was aggravated by its being told only for the sake of getting a little food; and especially told to an high priest, and at the tabernacle of God, and when he was come to inquire of the Lord there; and was attended with a dreadful consequence, the slaughter of the Lord's priests there, which afterwards lay heavy on David's mind, ( 1 Samuel 22:22 ) ; and is the very sin he is thought to refer to in ( Psalms 119:28 Psalms 119:29 ) . This shows the weakness of the best of men, when left to themselves; David who as much hated lying as any man did, fell into it himself:

and I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place;
to such a place, of such an one, not naming place nor person, that they might not be known; so the Targum calls it a place hidden and kept; and that David had some servants, though not now with him, who ate of the shewbread, appears from ( Matthew 12:3 ) ; whom Jonathan might send after him, to a place agreed on and appointed between them; so that this might be true.

1 Samuel 21:2 In-Context

1 Então veio Davi a Nobe, ao sacerdote Aimeleque, o qual saiu, tremendo, ao seu encontro, e lhe perguntou: Por que vens só, e ninguém contigo?

2 Respondeu Davi ao sacerdote Aimeleque: O rei me encomendou um negócio, e me disse: Ninguém saiba deste negócio pelo qual eu te enviei, e o qual te ordenei. Quanto aos mancebos, apontei-lhes tal e tal lugar.

3 Agora, pois, que tens � mão? Dá-me cinco pães, ou o que se achar.

4 Ao que, respondendo o sacerdote a Davi, disse: Não tenho pão comum � mão; há, porém, pão sagrado, se ao menos os mancebos se têm abstido das mulheres.

5 E respondeu Davi ao sacerdote, e lhe disse: Sim, em boa fé, as mulheres se nos vedaram há três dias; quando eu saí, os vasos dos mancebos também eram santos, embora fosse para uma viagem comum; quanto mais ainda hoje não serão santos os seus vasos?