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大卫逃离扫罗

1 大卫到了挪伯祭司亚希米勒那里，亚希米勒战战兢兢地出来迎接他，问他说：「你为什么独自来，没有人跟随呢？」

2 大卫回答祭司亚希米勒说：「王吩咐我一件事说：『我差遣你委托你的这件事，不要使人知道。』故此我已派定少年人在某处等候我。

3 现在你手下有什么？求你给我五个饼或是别样的食物。」

4 祭司对大卫说：「我手下没有寻常的饼，只有圣饼；若少年人没有亲近妇人才可以给。」

5 大卫对祭司说：「实在约有三日我们没有亲近妇人；我出来的时候，虽是寻常行路，少年人的器皿还是洁净的；何况今日不更是洁净吗？」

6 祭司就拿圣饼给他；因为在那里没有别样饼，只有更换新饼，从耶/和/华面前撤下来的陈设饼。

（ 7 当日有扫罗的一个臣子留在耶/和/华面前。他名叫多益，是以东人，作扫罗的司牧长。）

8 大卫问亚希米勒说：「你手下有枪有刀没有？因为王的事甚急，连刀剑器械我都没有带。」

9 祭司说：「你在以拉谷杀非利士人歌利亚的那刀在这里，裹在布中，放在以弗得后边，你要就可以拿去；除此以外，再没有别的。」大卫说：「这刀没有可比的！求你给我。」

David at Nob

1 David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

2 David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.

3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”

4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”

5 David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men’s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”

6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.

7 Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief shepherd.

8 David asked Ahimelek, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king’s mission was urgent.”

9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.”David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

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