1 Samuel 21:1–6
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David Goes to Nob
51Then David52 got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city. 21:1David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met1 David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?” 21:2David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’2 I have told my soldiers3 to wait at a certain place.421:3Now what do you have at your disposal?5 Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
21:4The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers6 have abstained from sexual relations with women.”721:5David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’8 equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
21:6So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.
Footnotes
- 51 Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (), with 20:42b = 21:1 , 21:1 = 21:2 , 21:2 = 21:3 , etc., through 21:15 = 21:16 . With 22:1 the verse numbers in the and are again the same.
- 52 Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 1 Heb “trembled to meet.”
- 2 Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”
- 3 Heb “servants.”
- 4 The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.
- 5 Heb “under your hand.”
- 6 Heb “servants.”
- 7 Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so , , ); “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; “have not slept with any women recently.”
- 8 Heb “servants’.”
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