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David Encounters the Priests of Nob

21 Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and he said to him, “Why are you alone and there are no men with you?” So David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘No one must know anything about this matter on which I am sending you, with which I have charged you and the servants.’” So I have arranged to meet with my servants at a certain place.[a] Now then, what do you have at hand?[b] Give me five loaves of bread or whatever is here.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 21:2 Literally “I have made an appointment with my servants/young men to a place, a certain one
  2. 1 Samuel 21:3 Literally “what is there under your hand”
  3. 1 Samuel 21:3 Literally “that which is found”