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    1 Samuel 21

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    In Gath, David answers a song about tens of thousands by scratching on gate doors and letting saliva run down his beard—and Achish objects chiefly that he has enough madmen already.

    Bread, and one rather famous swordvv. 1–9

    David came to Nob alone, which made Ahimelech tremble before a word had properly got under way. David said the king’s mission was secret and urgent, then asked for bread: the ordinary sort was absent, but the consecrated Bread of the Presence was available, freshly replaced with hot bread on the very day it had been removed. Ahimelech gave it to him. Doeg the Edomite was there, detained before the LORD, and David also requested a weapon. The only one was Goliath’s sword, wrapped behind the ephod; David accepted it with the brisk verdict, “There is none like it.”

    The celebrated madman of Gathvv. 10–15

    David fled from Saul to Gath, carrying Goliath’s sword into the city of Goliath’s people. Achish’s servants recognised him by the old dance-song about Saul’s thousands and David’s tens of thousands. David took this badly, and performed madness with remarkable commitment: he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard. Achish, told that the man was insane, wondered why anyone had brought him in at all. The king’s objection was not that David was too dangerous, but that his household had no particular need of madmen.

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    1. 1 Sam 21:1Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

    2. 1 Sam 21:2“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.

    3. 1 Sam 21:3Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”

    4. 1 Sam 21:4“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

    5. 1 Sam 21:5David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”

    6. 1 Sam 21:6So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

    7. 1 Sam 21:7Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.

    8. 1 Sam 21:8Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s mission was urgent.”

    9. 1 Sam 21:9The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

    10. 1 Sam 21:10That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.

    11. 1 Sam 21:11But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”

    12. 1 Sam 21:12Now David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

    13. 1 Sam 21:13So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.

    14. 1 Sam 21:14Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?

    15. 1 Sam 21:15Am I in need of madmen, that you have brought this man to rave in my presence? Must this man come into my house?”

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    • 6Luke 6:3–4Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
    • 13Proverbs 29:25The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high.
    • 4Matthew 12:3–4Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
    • 6Leviticus 24:5–9You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
    • 111 Samuel 29:5Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
    • 1Nehemiah 11:32in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
    • 1Mark 2:26During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”
    • 4Exodus 19:15“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
    • 6Mark 2:25–27Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?
    • 11 Samuel 14:3including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.
    • 1Isaiah 10:32Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
    • 11 Samuel 16:4So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
    • 4Exodus 25:30And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
    • 71 Samuel 22:9But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
    • 91 Samuel 17:2Saul and the men of Israel assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah, arraying themselves for battle against the Philistines.
    • 13Ecclesiastes 7:7Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

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