📖 The Book of 1 Samuel: Bible Verses and Spiritual Insights

1 SAMUEL 21:5

And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women [have been] kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and [the bread is] in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. ...

1 SAMUEL 21:6

So the priest gave him hallowed [bread]: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. ...

1 SAMUEL 21:7

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul. ...

1 SAMUEL 21:8

# And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste. ...

1 SAMUEL 21:9

And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here] wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it]: for [there is] no other save that here. And David said, [There is] none like that; give it me. ...

1 SAMUEL 21:10

# And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. ...

1 SAMUEL 21:11

And the servants of Achish said unto him, [Is] not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands? ...

1 SAMUEL 21:12

And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. ...

1 SAMUEL 21:13

And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. ...

1 SAMUEL 21:14

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me? ...

1 SAMUEL 21:15

Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this [fellow] to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come into my house? ...

1 SAMUEL 22:1

David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard [it], they went down thither to him. ...