1Samuel 21:11 - Prayer Tents



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1Samuel 21
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21David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech was trembling as he came to meet David. Ahimelech said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"H935H1732H5011H288H3548H288H2729H7125H1732H559H376
2David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king commanded me about a matter, saying to me, 'Don't let anyone know anything about the matter I'm sending you to do and about which I've commanded you. I've directed the young men to a certain place.'H1732H559H288H3548H4428H6680H1697H559H376H3045H3972H1697H7971H6680H3045H5288H6423H492H4725
3Now, what do you have available?Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you have."H3426H3027H5414H2568H3899H3027H4672
4The priest answered David: "There is no ordinary bread available; only consecrated bread, provided that the young men have kept themselves from women."H3548H6030H1732H559H2455H3899H3027H3426H6944H3899H5288H8104H389H802
5David answered the priest, saying to him, "Indeed, women were kept from us as is usual whenever I go out on a mission, and the equipment of the young men is consecrated even when it's an ordinary journey, so how much more is their equipment consecrated today?"H1732H6030H3548H559H518H802H6113H8032H8543H3318H3627H5288H6944H1870H2455H6942H3117H3627
6So the priest gave him consecrated bread because no bread was there except the Bread of the Presence that had been removed from the Lord's presence and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.H3548H5414H6944H3899H3899H6440H5493H6440H3068H7760H2527H3899H3117H3947
7Now, Doeg the Edomite, one of Saul's officials, was there that day, detained in the Lord's presence. He was the chief of Saul's shepherds.H376H5650H7586H3117H6113H6440H3068H8034H1673H130H47H7462H7586
8David said to Ahimelech, "Is there no spear or sword available here?I took neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's mission is urgent."H1732H559H288H3426H371H3027H2595H2719H3947H2719H3627H3027H4428H1697H1961H5169
9The 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. 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."H3548H559H2719H1555H6430H5221H6010H425H3874H8071H310H646H3947H3947H312H2108H2088H1732H559H5414
10David got up that day and fled from Saul, and he went to King Achish of Gath.H1732H6965H1272H3117H6440H7586H935H397H4428H1661
11The officials of Achish said to 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'?"21H5650H397H559H1732H4428H776H6030H2088H4246H559H7586H5221H505H1732H7233
12David took these words seriously, and he was very frightened of King Achish of Gath.H1732H7760H1697H3824H3966H3372H6440H397H4428H1661
13So David changed his behavior before them and acted like he was crazy in their presence. He scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down his beard.H8138H2940H5869H1984H3027H8427H1817H8179H7388H3381H2206
14Achish said to his officials, "Look, you see a person acting like a madman. Why'd you bring him to me?H559H397H5650H7200H376H7696H935
15Am I lacking madmen that you bring me this one to act like a madman around me?Shall this one come into my house?"H2638H7696H935H7696H935H1004


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