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1 Samuel 21 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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David Takes Consecrated Bread

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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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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commissioned me with a matter and has said to me, ‘No one is to 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:3 - “Now then, what [fn]do you have on hand? Give [fn]me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:4 - The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread [fn]on hand, but there is consecrated bread, if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:5 - David answered the priest and said to him, “Be assured, women have been denied to us as previously when I left and the [fn]bodies of the young men were consecrated, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then will [fn]their bodies be consecrated today?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:6 - So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence which was removed from its place before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day it was taken away.

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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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David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there no spear or sword [fn]on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons [fn]with me, because the king’s matter was urgent.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you [fn]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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Then David set out and fled that day from Saul, and went to Achish king of Gath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11 - 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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David took these words [fn]to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:13 - So he disguised his sanity while in their sight and acted insanely in their [fn]custody, and he scribbled on the doors of the gate, and drooled on his beard.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:14 - Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is behaving like an insane person. Why do you bring him to me?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:15 - “Do I lack insane people, that you have brought this one to behave like an insane person in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?”
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NASB20 Footnotes
Lit is there under your hand?
Lit into my hand
Lit under my hand
Lit vessels
Lit it be holy in the vessel
Lit under your hand
Lit in my hand
Lit struck
Lit in his
Lit hand
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1 Samuel Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

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