21David went to Ahimelech the priest at Nob. Ahimelech was afraid to meet David, so he said to him, "Why are you alone and no one is with you?"H935H1732H5011H288H3548H288H2729H7125H1732H559H3762David answered Ahimelech the priest, "The king gave me a mission, but he told me, 'Don't let anyone know anything about the mission I'm sending you on or what I have ordered you [to do].' I have stationed [my] young men at a certain place.H1732H559H288H3548H4428H6680H1697H559H376H3045H3972H1697H7971H6680H3045H5288H6423H492H47253Now what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever can be found."H3426H3027H5414H2568H3899H3027H46724The priest told him, "There is no ordinary bread on hand. However, there is consecrated bread, but the young men may eat it only if they have kept themselves from women."H3548H6030H1732H559H2455H3899H3027H3426H6944H3899H5288H8104H389H8025David answered him, "I swear that women are being kept from us, as always when I go out [to battle]. The young men's bodies are consecrated even on an ordinary mission, so of course their bodies are consecrated today."H1732H6030H3548H559H518H802H6113H8032H8543H3318H3627H5288H6944H1870H2455H6942H3117H36276So the priest gave him the consecrated [bread], for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the LORD. When the bread was removed, it had been replaced with warm bread.H3548H5414H6944H3899H3899H6440H5493H6440H3068H7760H2527H3899H3117H39477One of Saul's servants, detained before the LORD, was there that day. His name was Doeg the Edomite, chief of Saul's shepherds.H376H5650H7586H3117H6113H6440H3068H8034H1673H130H47H7462H75868David said to Ahimelech, "Do you have a spear or sword on hand? I didn't even bring my sword or my weapons since the king's mission was urgent."H1732H559H288H3426H371H3027H2595H2719H3947H2719H3627H3027H4428H1697H1961H51699The priest replied, "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 isn't another one here." "There's none like it!" David said. "Give it to me."H3548H559H2719H1555H6430H5221H6010H425H3874H8071H310H646H3947H3947H312H2108H2088H1732H559H541410David fled that day from Saul's presence and went to King Achish of Gath.H1732H6965H1272H3117H6440H7586H935H397H4428H166111But Achish's servants said to him, "Isn't this David, the king of the land? Don't they sing about him during their dances: Saul has killed his thousands, but David his tens of thousands?"H5650H397H559H1732H4428H776H6030H2088H4246H559H7586H5221H505H1732H723312David took this to heart and became very afraid of King Achish of Gath,H1732H7760H1697H3824H3966H3372H6440H397H4428H166113so he pretended to be insane in their presence. He acted like a madman around them, scribbling on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.H8138H2940H5869H1984H3027H8427H1817H8179H7388H3381H220614"Look! You can see the man is crazy," Achish said to his servants. "Why did you bring him to me?H559H397H5650H7200H376H7696H93515Do I have such a shortage of crazy people that you brought this one to act crazy around me? Is this one going to come into my house?"H2638H7696H935H7696H935H1004