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David went to Ahimelech
David answered Ahimelech the priest, “The king gave me a mission, but he told me, ‘Don’t let anyone know anything about the mission I’m sending you on or what I have ordered you to do.’ I have stationed my young men at a certain place.
David fled that day from Saul’s presence and went to King Achish of Gath.
The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine,
“There’s none like it!” David said. “Give it to me.”
David said to Ahimelech, “Do you have a spear or sword on hand? I didn’t even bring my sword or my weapons since the king’s mission was urgent.”
One of Saul’s servants, detained before the Lord, was there that day. His name was Doeg the Edomite,
The priest told him, “There is no ordinary bread on hand. However, there is consecrated bread,
Do I have such a shortage of crazy people that you brought this one to act crazy around me? Is this one going to come into my house?”
But Achish’s servants said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Don’t they sing about him during their dances:
but David his tens of thousands?”
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread,
so he pretended to be insane in their presence.
“Look! You can see the man is crazy,” Achish said to his servants. “Why did you bring him to me?
David answered him, “I swear that women are being kept from us, as always when I go out to battle.