1 Samuel 21:2

2 David le respondió:—Vengo por orden del rey, pero nadie debe saber a qué me ha enviado ni cuál es esa orden. En cuanto a mis hombres, ya les he indicado dónde encontrarnos.

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 Cuando David llegó a Nob, fue a ver al sacerdote Ajimélec, quien al encontrarse con David se puso nervioso.—¿Por qué vienes solo? —le preguntó—. ¿Cómo es que nadie te acompaña?

2 David le respondió:—Vengo por orden del rey, pero nadie debe saber a qué me ha enviado ni cuál es esa orden. En cuanto a mis hombres, ya les he indicado dónde encontrarnos.

3 ¿Qué provisiones tienes a mano? Dame unos cinco panes, o algo más que tengas.

4 —No tengo a la mano pan común y corriente —le contestó el sacerdote—. Podría darte el pan consagrado, si es que tus hombres se han abstenido por lo menos de estar con mujeres.

5 David respondió:—Te aseguro que, como es la costumbre cuando salimos en una expedición, no hemos tenido contacto con mujeres. Además, mis hombres se consagran incluso en expediciones ordinarias, así que con más razón están consagrados ahora.