1 Samuel 21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Samuel 21David and the Holy Bread

1 David came to Nob to the priest Ahimelech. Ahimelech came trembling to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone and no one with you?”

2David said to the priest Ahimelech, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘No one must know anything of the matter about which I send you and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.

3Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever is here.”

4 He scratched marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.

14Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?

15Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”