⁷ Now there was a man from the servants of Saul on that day, detained before Yahweh, whose name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds. ⁸ 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.” ⁹ 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.”