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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Nob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 21:1-15 is numbered 21:2-16.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, &#8220;Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David answered Ahimelek the priest, &#8220;The king sent me on a mission and said to me, &#8216;No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.&#8217; As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the priest answered David, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here&#8212;provided the men have kept themselves from women.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David replied, &#8220;Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from us in the past few days since</span></span></span><span class="content"> I set out. The men&#8217;s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now one of Saul&#8217;s servants was there that day, detained before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul&#8217;s chief shepherd.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">David asked Ahimelek, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven&#8217;t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king&#8217;s mission was urgent.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The priest replied, &#8220;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 it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="content">David said, &#8220;There is none like it; give it to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Gath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the servants of Achish said to him, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this David, the king of the land? Isn&#8217;t he the one they sing about in their dances:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Saul has slain his thousands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">and David his tens of thousands&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Achish said to his servants, &#8220;Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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