1 Samuel 21
21:1And David comes to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech is startled in the meeting David. And he said to him, Why is it that you are alone, and no one is with you?
21:2And David said to the priest Ahimelech, The king gave charge to me a thing today, and said to me, Let no one know anything concerning the matter for which I send you, and for what I have given charge to you. And to the servants I testified in the place, in the one being called -- Phalanni Alomni.
21:3And now, if there is in your hand five bread loaves, put into my hand the thing being found.
21:4And the priest responded to David, and said, There are no profane bread loaves in my hand, but there are only holy bread loaves. If the servants were having been kept from a woman, then they shall eat.
21:5And David answered to the priest, and said to him, Yes, even from a woman we have been at a distance from yesterday and the third day before. In my coming forth for the journey all the servants have been purified; but this journey is profane, for today it shall be sanctified on account of my weapons.
21:6And Ahimelech the priest gave to him bread loaves of the place setting, for there was no bread loaf there, but only bread loaves of the presence, the loaves being removed before the presence of the lord, so as to place near the hot bread loaves in which day he took them.
21:7And there was a certain one there of the servants of Saul in that day, being held before the lord, and the name to him was Doeg the Edomite, feeding the mules of Saul.
21:8And David said to Ahimelech, See if there is here under your hand a spear or broadsword! for my broadsword and my weapons I have not taken in my hand, for the matter of the king was in haste.
21:9And the priest said, Behold, the broadsword of Goliath the Philistine whom you struck in the valley of Ela. And it is wrapped in a cloak behind the shoulder-piece. If this you take for yourself, take! for there is none other besides it here. And David said, There is none as it, give it to me!
21:10And he gave it to him. And David rose up and fled in that day from the presence of Saul. And David came to Achish king of Gath.
21:11And the servants of Achish said to him, this Is not David the king of the land? Did not the women joining in a dance to this one taking the lead, saying, Saul struck his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
21:12And David put these words in his heart, and feared exceedingly before the face of Achish king of Gath.
21:13And he changed his countenance before them. And carried about with his hands, and fell upon the doors of the gateway, and his saliva flowed down upon his beard.
21:14And Achish said to his servants, Behold, you see a man overcome by convulsions! Why did you bring him to me?
21:15Or do I feel a want of ones overcome by convulsions that you carry him being possessed unto me? Shall this one enter into my house, no.