1 Samuel 21章 ESV | 微读圣经

David and the Holy Bread

121:1 Ch 21:2 in Hebrew Then David came to 21:1 ch. 22:9, 11, 19; Neh. 11:32; Isa. 10:32Nob, to 21:1 [ch. 14:3; Mark 2:26] Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech 21:1 [ch. 16:4]came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”

2And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.

3Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”

4And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is 21:4 Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5; Matt. 12:3, 4; Mark 2:25, 26; Luke 6:3, 4holy bread—21:4 Ex. 19:15if the young men have kept themselves from women.”

5And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”

6So the priest gave him 21:6 [See ver. 4above] the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, 21:6 Lev. 24:8, 9which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was 21:7 ch. 22:9; See Ps. 52Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.

8Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

9And the priest said, 21:9 ch. 17:51“The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in 21:9 ch. 17:2the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”

David Flees to Gath

10And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to 21:10 See Ps. 34Achish the king of Gath.

11And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? 21:11 ch. 18:7; 29:5Did they not sing to one another of him in dances,

‘Saul has struck down his thousands,

and David his ten thousands’?”

12And David 21:12 [Luke 2:19]took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

13So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.

14Then Achish said to his servants, “Behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?

15Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”

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