1 Samuel 21

¹Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mark 2:26Neh 11:321 Sam 14:31 Sam 16:4Isa 10:321 Sam 22:9-19

²And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Col 3:9Gal 2:121 Kgs 13:181 Sam 19:171 Sam 22:22Gen 27:20Gen 27:24

³Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 21:4Isa 3:6Judg 9:29

⁴And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 12:3-4Exod 19:15Exod 25:301 Cor 7:51 Sam 21:6Lev 24:5-9Zech 7:3

⁵And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 4:3-42 Tim 2:20-21Acts 9:15Lev 24:9Lev 8:261 Pet 3:17

⁶So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 6:3-4Lev 24:5-9Matt 12:3-4Mark 2:25-27

⁷Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 22:9Ps 52:1-91 Chr 27:291 Sam 11:51 Sam 14:472 Chr 26:10Acts 21:26-27Amos 8:5Ezek 33:31Gen 13:7-8

⁸And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁹And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 17:21 Sam 17:50-541 Sam 31:10Exod 28:6-14

¹⁰And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 19:31 Sam 27:1-2Jer 26:21Ps 34:1-22

¹¹And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 29:51 Sam 16:11 Sam 18:7-8Ps 56:1-13

¹²And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 2:19Ps 56:3Ps 34:41 Sam 21:10Gen 12:11-13Gen 26:7Luke 2:51Ps 119:11

¹³And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 29:25Eccl 7:7Ps 34:1-22

¹⁴Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 7:7

¹⁵Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI