I. Samvet XXTI. 12.

# And Jonathan said to David, “-Go| in peace, forasmuch_as we -haye_sworn | both_of us in the_name_of /the Lorn, saying, ‘! The Lorp ‘be between me and ,$ thee, and between my seed and) ~» thy seed for ever.’” And he arose) and departed: and Jonathan went_| into the city.
2 THEN came Dayid to » Nob to aAhimelech the priest: and
of David, and said unto him, “ Why art
2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, “ The king -hath_command- ed me a business, and hath_said unto) me, ‘‘Let no ‘man know any_thing of
the business whereabout = send thee, |*
and what I -have_commanded thee: and I-have_appointed my y 5servantsto psuch and such a place’
3 Now therefore what is under thine|™
hand ? «give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there_is_/pre- sent.”
+ And the priest answered -Dayid,! and said, “There is no common bread under mine hand, but there_is hallowed | bread; if the young_men -have_kept_ themselves at_least from women.”
> And David answered -the priest, and said unto him, “Of a truth women
three days, since I came_out, and the_ yessels_of the young_men are holy, and | the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it 'were_sanctified this day in the vessel.”
® So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there_was no bread there but the pr shewbread, x+that was_taken | from before Jthe Lorp, to put hot! bread in the_day_when it was_taken_| away.
7 Now a icertain_man of the_ser- vants_of Saul was there xthat xday, de- tained before 2 tie Lorp; and his name was 4 Doeg, an xEdomite, the_chiefest_ of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
$ And David said unto Ahimelech,| “Andis there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I -have_ neither brought my sword nor my wea- pons with me, because the king’s busi-} ness required haste.”
$ And the priest said, “The_sword_of) Goliath the Philistine, whom slewest m the_valley_of xElah, behold, it is here wrapped in a xcloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt_take that, ‘take it : for there ts no other save that xhere.”. And Dayid said, “There is none like that ; -give it me.”
10 And David arose, and fled xthat) xday /for fear_of Saul, and went to « Achish the_king_of Gath.
ll And the_servants_of Achish said unto him, “Js not this David the_ king_of the land? ‘did they not sing_ one_to_another of him in xdances, saying,
‘Saul -hath_slain his xthousands, And David his ten_thousands?’”
12 And Dayid laid_up xthese *words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the_king_of Gath.
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B.C. about 1062. J. Jehovah.
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king, called
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