1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? 2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such 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 present. 4 And the priest answered David, 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. 5 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. 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. 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.
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. 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.
10 ¶ And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. 11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands? 12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. 14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me? 15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
1 venit autem David in Nobe ad Ahimelech sacerdotem
et obstipuit Ahimelech eo quod venisset David et dixit ei
quare tu solus et nullus est tecum
2 et ait David ad Ahimelech sacerdotem
rex praecepit mihi sermonem et dixit
nemo sciat rem propter quam a me missus es
et cuiusmodi tibi praecepta dederim
nam et pueris condixi in illum et illum
locum
3 nunc igitur si quid habes ad manum
vel quinque panes da mihi aut quicquid inveneris
4 et respondens sacerdos David ait ei
non habeo panes laicos ad manum sed tantum panem sanctum
si mundi sunt pueri maxime a mulieribus
5 et respondit David sacerdoti et dixit ei
equidem si de mulieribus agitur
continuimus nos ab heri et nudius tertius quando egrediebamur
et fuerunt vasa puerorum sancta
porro via haec polluta est
sed et ipsa hodie sanctificabitur in vasis
6 dedit ergo ei sacerdos sanctificatum panem
neque enim erat ibi panis nisi tantum panes propositionis
qui sublati fuerant a facie Domini ut ponerentur panes calidi
7 erat autem ibi vir de servis Saul in die illa
intus in tabernaculo Domini
et nomen eius Doec Idumeus potentissimus pastorum Saul
8 dixit autem David ad Ahimelech
si habes hic ad manum hastam aut gladium
quia gladium meum et arma mea non tuli mecum
sermo enim regis urguebat
9 et dixit sacerdos gladius Goliath Philisthei
quem percussisti in valle Terebinthi
est involutus pallio post ephod
si istum vis tollere tolle
neque enim est alius hic absque eo
et ait David non est huic alter similis da mihi eum
10 surrexit itaque David et fugit in die illa a facie Saul
et venit ad Achis regem Geth
11 dixeruntque ei servi Achis
numquid non iste est David rex terrae
nonne huic cantabant per choros dicentes
percussit Saul mille et David decem milia
12 posuit autem David sermones istos in corde suo
et extimuit valde a facie Achis regis Geth
13 et inmutavit os suum coram eis et conlabebatur inter manus eorum
et inpingebat in ostia portae defluebantque salivae eius in barbam
14 et ait Achis ad servos suos
vidistis hominem insanum quare adduxistis eum ad me
15 an desunt nobis furiosi
quod introduxistis istum ut fureret me praesente
hicine ingredietur domum
meam