1 Samuel 21:2

2 Y David respondió al sacerdote Ahimelec: El rey me ha encomendado cierto asunto y me ha dicho: "Que no sepa nadie acerca del asunto por el cual te envío y que te he encomendado; y yo he citado a los jóvenes a cierto 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 Entonces llegó David a Nob, al sacerdote Ahimelec; y Ahimelec vino tembloroso al encuentro de David, y le dijo: ¿Por qué estás solo y no hay nadie contigo?

2 Y David respondió al sacerdote Ahimelec: El rey me ha encomendado cierto asunto y me ha dicho: "Que no sepa nadie acerca del asunto por el cual te envío y que te he encomendado; y yo he citado a los jóvenes a cierto lugar."

3 Ahora pues, ¿qué tienes a mano? Dame cinco panes, o lo que tengas.

4 Respondió el sacerdote a David, y dijo: No hay pan común a mano, pero hay pan consagrado; siempre que los jóvenes se hayan abstenido de mujer.

5 Y David respondió al sacerdote, y le dijo: Ciertamente las mujeres nos han sido vedadas; como anteriormente, cuando he salido en campaña, los cuerpos de los jóvenes se han mantenido puros, aunque haya sido un viaje profano; ¿cuánto más puros estarán sus cuerpos hoy?