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The priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah is wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod.[a] If you want it, take it because there is no other except it here.”

So David said, “There is none like it. Give it to me.”

David Flees to Gath

10 David got up that day and fled from Saul, and he went to King Achish of Gath. 11 The officials[b] of Achish told him, “Isn’t this David, king of the land? Isn’t this the one about whom they sang as they danced,

‘Saul has struck down his thousands,
    but David his ten thousands’?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 21:9 The ephod was a type of vest normally worn by the priests
  2. 1 Samuel 21:11 Or servants