Miadto si David sa Nob
1Unya, miadto si David kang Ahimelec nga pari sa Nob. Nagkurog sa kahadlok si Ahimelec sa dihang nakita niya si David. Nangutana si Ahimelec, “Nganong nagainusara ka lang?” 2Mitubag si David, “May misyon ako dinhi gikan sa hari, ug giingnan niya ako nga dili gayod ako mosulti bahin niini nga misyon. Kon bahin sa akong mga tawo, giingnan ko sila nga magkita lang kami sa usa ka dapit. 3May pagkaon ka ba diha? Palihog hatagi ako ug lima ka buok pan o bisan unsay anaa nga makaon.” 4Mitubag ang pari, “Wala akoy ordinaryong pan, apan may pan dinhi nga hinalad. Ihatag ko kini kon ikaw ug ang imong mga tawo wala makigdulog ug babaye niining ulahing mga adlaw.” 5Mitubag si David, “Dili kami makigdulog ug babaye kon may misyon kami. Bisan ordinaryo lang nga misyon ang among adtoan kinahanglang manghinlo kami. Unsa pa kaha niini nga misyon!” 6Busa tungod kay walay ordinaryo nga pan, gihatag sa pari kaniya ang pan nga hinalad diha atubangan sa Ginoo. Gikuha kini gikan sa balaan nga lamisa ug giilisdan dayon ug bag-ong pan nianang adlawa.
7Naatol nga niadtong adlawa didto ang sulugoon ni Saul nga si Doeg nga taga-Edom. Siya ang pangulo sa mga magbalantay sa mananap ni Saul. Tua siya didto kay may panaad siya sa Ginoo.
8Nangutana si David kang Ahimelec, “May espada ka ba o bangkaw dinhi? Wala ako makadala sa akong espada o sa bisan unsa nga armas tungod kay dinalian ang sugo sa hari.” 9Mitubag ang pari, “Ania dinhi ang espada ni Goliat nga Filistihanon nga imong gipatay sa kapatagan sa Elah. Giputos kini ug panapton luyo sa efod. Kuhaa kon gusto mo, kay wala nay lain pang armas dinhi.” Miingon si David, “Ihatag kana kanako. Wala nay espada nga sama niana.”
10Busa mipahilayo si David kang Saul ug miadto kang Akish nga hari sa Gat. 11Miingon ang mga opisyal ni Akish kaniya, “Dili ba si David kini nga hari sa Israel? Dili ba siya ang gipasidunggan sa mga babaye samtang nagasayaw sila ug nagaawit, ‘Linibo ang napatay ni Saul, apan ang kang David tinag-pulo ka libo’?”
12Gihunahuna ni David ang ilang gisulti, ug nahadlok siya pag-ayo kang Akish nga hari sa Gat. 13Busa nagpabuang-buang si David samtang didto siya sa Gat. Gikuriskurisan niya ang mga pultahan sa lungsod, ug gipatulo niya ang iyang laway sa iyang balbas. 14Busa miingon si Akish sa iyang mga opisyal, “Tan-awa ninyo! Buang kanang tawhana! Nganong gidala ninyo siya dinhi kanako? 15Daghan na ang buang dinhi! Nganong gidala pa ninyo siya sa akong balay aron magbinuang sa akong atubangan?”
David at Nob
In Hebrew texts 21:1-15 is numbered 21:2-16. 1David 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?’
2David 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. 3Now then, what have you to hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.’
4But the priest answered David, ‘I don’t have any ordinary bread to hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here – provided the men have kept themselves from women.’
5David replied, ‘Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever21:5 Or from us in the past few days since I set out. The men’s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!’ 6So 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.
7Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief shepherd.
8David asked Ahimelek, ‘Don’t you have a spear or sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king’s mission was urgent.’
9The 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.’
David at Gath
10That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. 11But the servants of Achish said to him, ‘Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one they sing about in their dances:
‘ “Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his tens of thousands”?’
12David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. 13So he feigned insanity in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.
14Achish said to his servants, ‘Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? 15Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?’
