1sam 21:1 Sampailah Daud ke Nob kepada Ahimelekh, imam itu. Dengan gemetar Ahimelekh pergi menemui Daud dan berkata kepadanya: "Mengapa engkau seorang diri dan tidak ada orang bersama-sama dengan engkau?"
1sam 21:2 Jawab Daud kepada imam Ahimelekh: "Raja menugaskan sesuatu kepadaku, katanya kepadaku: Siapapun juga tidak boleh mengetahui sesuatu dari hal yang kusuruh kepadamu dan yang kutugaskan kepadamu ini. Sebab itu orang-orangku telah kusuruh pergi ke suatu tempat.
1sam 21:3 Maka sekarang, apa yang ada padamu? Berikanlah kepadaku lima roti atau apapun yang ada."
1sam 21:4 Lalu jawab imam itu kepada Daud: "Tidak ada roti biasa padaku, hanya roti kudus yang ada; asal saja orang-orangmu itu menjaga diri terhadap perempuan."
1sam 21:5 Daud menjawab imam itu, katanya kepadanya: "Memang, kami tidak diperbolehkan bergaul dengan perempuan, seperti sediakala apabila aku maju berperang. Tubuh orang-orangku itu tahir, sekalipun pada perjalanan biasa, apalagi pada hari ini, masing-masing mereka tahir tubuhnya."
1sam 21:6 Lalu imam itu memberikan kepadanya roti kudus itu, karena tidak ada roti di sana kecuali roti sajian; roti itu biasa diangkat orang dari hadapan TUHAN, supaya pada hari roti itu diambil, ditaruh lagi roti baru.
1sam 21:7 Maka pada hari itu juga ada di sana salah seorang pegawai Saul, yang dikhususkan melayani TUHAN; namanya Doeg, seorang Edom, pengawas atas gembala-gembala Saul.
1sam 21:8 Berkatalah Daud kepada Ahimelekh: "Tidak adakah padamu di sini tombak atau pedang? Sebab baik pedangku maupun senjataku, tidak dapat kubawa, karena perintah raja itu mendesak."
1sam 21:9 Kemudian berkatalah imam itu: "Pedang Goliat, orang Filistin, yang kaupukul kalah di Lembah Tarbantin, itulah yang ada di sini, terbungkus dalam kain di belakang efod itu. Jika engkau hendak mengambilnya, ambillah; yang lain tidak ada, hanya ini." Kata Daud: "Tidak ada yang seperti itu; berikanlah itu kepadaku."
Daud di Gat
1sam 21:10 Kemudian bersiaplah Daud dan larilah ia pada hari itu juga dari Saul; sampailah ia kepada Akhis, raja kota Gat.
1sam 21:11 Pegawai-pegawai Akhis berkata kepada tuannya: "Bukankah ini Daud raja negeri itu? Bukankah tentang dia orang-orang menyanyi berbalas-balasan sambil menari-nari, demikian: Saul mengalahkan beribu-ribu musuh, tetapi Daud berlaksa-laksa?"
1sam 21:12 Daud memperhatikan perkataan itu, dan dia menjadi takut sekali kepada Akhis, raja kota Gat itu.
1sam 21:13 Sebab itu ia berlaku seperti orang yang sakit ingatan di depan mata mereka dan berbuat pura-pura gila di dekat mereka; ia menggores-gores pintu gerbang dan membiarkan ludahnya meleleh ke janggutnya.
1sam 21:14 Lalu berkatalah Akhis kepada para pegawainya: "Tidakkah kamu lihat, bahwa orang itu gila? Mengapa kamu membawa dia kepadaku?
1sam 21:15 Kekurangan orang gilakah aku, maka kamu bawa orang ini kepadaku supaya ia menunjukkan gilanya dekat aku? Patutkah orang yang demikian masuk ke rumahku?"
1samuel 21:1 Then 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?
1samuel 21:2 And 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.
1samuel 21:3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
1samuel 21:4 And 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.
1samuel 21:5 And 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.
1samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1samuel 21:7 Now 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.
1samuel 21:8 And 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.
1samuel 21:9 And 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.
1samuel 21:10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
1samuel 21:11 And 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?
1samuel 21:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
1samuel 21:13 And he changed his behavior 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.
1samuel 21:14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
1samuel 21:15 Have 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?
