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Text -- 1 Samuel 21:1-15 (NET)

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21:1 David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?” 21:2 David 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.’ I have told my soldiers to wait at a certain place. 21:3 Now what do you have at your disposal? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.” 21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women.” 21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!” 21:6 So 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. 21:7 (One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s shepherds.) 21:8 David said to Ahimelech, “Is there no sword or spear here at your disposal? I don’t have my own sword or equipment in hand due to the urgency of the king’s instructions.”
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21:9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod. If you wish, take it for yourself. Other than that, there’s nothing here.” David said, “There’s nothing like it! Give it to me!” 21:10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath. 21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying, ‘Saul struck down his thousands, But David his tens of thousands’?” 21:12 David thought about what they said and was very afraid of King Achish of Gath. 21:13 He altered his behavior in their presence. Since he was in their power, he pretended to be insane, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting his saliva run down his beard. 21:14 Achish said to his servants, “Look at this madman! Why did you bring him to me? 21:15 Do I have a shortage of fools, that you have brought me this man to display his insanity in front of me? Should this man enter my house?”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Achish the king of Gath in David's time,the king of Gath in Solomon's time
 · Ahimelech priest (Eli Ithamar) of Nob, whom Saul killed; Ahimelech I,a priest, Ahimelech II; son of Abiathar son of Ahimelech I,a man who was part of David's fugitive band; a Hittite
 · David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel
 · Doeg a man from Edom who was chief of Saul's herdsmen
 · Edomite resident(s) of the region of Edom
 · Elah a chief of Edom,the valley where David killed Goliath,son and successor of Baasha, king of Israel (about 900 BC),father of Hoshea, the last king of Israel about 700 BC,son of Caleb the son of Jephunneh of Judah,son of Uzzi (Michri Benjamin) who led his clan back from exile
 · Gath a town of the Anakim and Philistines in Judah 12 km south. of Ekron
 · Goliath a Philistine giant from Gath,a Philistine giant from Gath killed by Elhanan.
 · Nob a town 5 or 6 kilometers NE of Jerusalem
 · Philistines a sea people coming from Crete in 1200BC to the coast of Canaan
 · Saul the sixth king of Edom,son of Simeon and a Canaanite woman,son of Uzziah of Kohath son of Levi


Dictionary Themes and Topics: David | Ahimelech | Achish | EZEKIEL, 2 | SAMUEL, BOOKS OF | Judges, Book of | Lies and Deceits | Gath | Nob | Betrayal | ABIATHAR | Confidence | ABIMELECH | Tabernacle | Quotations | Shewbread | TABERNACLE, B | Bread | Philistines | Deception | more
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NET Notes: 1Sa 21:1 Heb “trembled to meet.”

NET Notes: 1Sa 21:2 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 i...

NET Notes: 1Sa 21:3 Heb “under your hand.”

NET Notes: 1Sa 21:4 Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have...

NET Notes: 1Sa 21:5 Heb “servants’.”

NET Notes: 1Sa 21:12 Heb “placed these matters in his heart.”

NET Notes: 1Sa 21:13 Heb “in their hand.”

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