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Give five loaves of bread into my hand, or whatever can be found.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And David answered the priest and said to him, “Surely women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>their vessels be holy?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So the priest gave him consecrated <i>bread</i>; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to put hot bread <i>in its place</i> when it was taken away. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not a spear or a sword <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons in my hand because the king’s matter was urgent.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take <i>it</i>. For there is no other except it here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.” <p class="hdg">David Flees to Gath</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then David arose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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, <p class="indent2">‘Saul has struck his thousands, <p class="indent2">And David his ten thousands’?” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And David took these words <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So he disguised his sanity in their sight and acted insanely in their hands and scribbled on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down into his beard. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Achish said to his servants, “Behold, you see the man behaving as a madman. Why do you bring him to me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman before me? Shall this one come into my house?”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>is under your hand?</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>under my hand</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>it</i> be holy <i>in the vessel</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>under your hand</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>in his</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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