Holy Bible
(King James Version)
First
Samuel: Chapter 21
1. THEN came David to Nob to
A-him-e-lech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of
David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
2. And David said unto A-him-e-lech 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.
3. Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of
bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
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.
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.
6. So 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.
7. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,
detained before the LORD; and his name was Do-eg, an Edomite, the
chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
8. And David said unto A-him-e-lech, 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.
9. And the priest said, The sword of Go-li-ath the Philistine, whom thou
slewset in the valley of E-lah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth
behind the e-phod: 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.
10. And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to A-chish
the king of Gath.
11. And the servants of A-chish 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?
12. And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of
A-chish the king of Gath.
13. And 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.
14. Then said A-chish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad:
wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
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?
Apr. 12 Daily reading
schedule.. No
NT reading today.
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