The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 20:39 (ESV)
But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 20:40
New International Version (NIV)

Then Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy and said, “Go, carry them back to town.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 20:41 (KJV)
And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 20:42 (NASB)
[SUP]42 [/SUP] Jonathan said to David, "Go in safety, inasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of the LORD, saying, 'The LORD will be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever.'" Then he rose and departed, while Jonathan went into the city.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:1 (ESV)0
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 21:2
New International Version (NIV)

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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:3 (ESV)
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:4 (ERV)
And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

(Luke 6:1-5)

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:5 (KJV)
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.

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

1Sa 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.

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

1Sa 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.

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

1Sa 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.

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

1Sa 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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:10 (ESV)
And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish the king of Gath.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:11 (ESV)
And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, ‘Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:12 (ESV)
And David took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:13 (ESV)
So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 21:14 (NASB)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] Then Achish said to his servants, "Behold, you see the man behaving as a madman. Why do you bring him to me?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 21:15 (ERV)
Do I lack mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 22:1 (ESV)
David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.