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David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not at your disposal[a] a spear or a sword? For I took neither my sword nor my weapons with me because the king’s matter was urgent.” So the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom you killed in the valley of Elah is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, then take it, for there is no other except it here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

David Flees to Achish in Gath

10 So David got up and fled on that day from the presence of Saul, and he came to Achish the king of Gath.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 21:8 Literally “under your hand”