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they not sing of him to one another in dances,
saying:
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
21:2 The king has ordered me.David,fearing And David his ten thousands’?”
someone might tell Saul where he was,
deceived Ahimelech the priest into thinking 12 Now David took these words to heart, and
that he was on official business for the king. was very much afraid of Achish the king of
He supposed, as many do, that it is excusable Gath. So he changed his behavior before
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to lie for the purpose of saving one’s life. But them, pretended madness in their hands,
what is essentially sinful can never,because of scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his
circumstances, change its immoral character saliva fall down on his beard. Then Achish
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(see Ps. 119:29). David’s lying led tragically to said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is
the deaths of the priests (22:9–18).
insane. Why have you brought him to me?
15 Have I need of madmen, that you have brought
Then David answered the priest, and said
5 this fellow to play the madman in my presence?
to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us Shall this fellow come into my house?”
about three days since I came out. And the
vessels of the young men are holy, and the
bread is in effect common, even though it was
consecrated in the vessel this day.”
So the priest gave him holy bread; for there
6 21:13 changed his behavior.David feared for
was no bread there but the showbread which his life, lacked trust in God to deliver him, and
had been taken from before the LORD, in order feigned insanity to persuade Achish to send
to put hot bread in its place on the day when it him away. See the titles of Psalms 34 and 56.
was taken away. Drooling in one’s beard was considered in the
East an intolerable indignity,as was spitting in
another’s beard.

21:5,6 bread…common. Since that bread
was no longer on the Lord’s table,having been Psalm 59:1–5
replaced by hot bread, it was to be eaten by To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.”
the priests and in these exigencies, by David A Michtam of David when Saul sent men,
under the law of necessity and mercy. The and they watched the house in order to kill him.
removal of the old bread and the replacing
D O my God;
with new was done on the Sabbath (Lev.24:8). eliver me from my enemies,
Defend me from those who rise up
against me.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul
2 Deliver me from the workers of
was there that day, detained before the LORD. iniquity,
And his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chief And save me from bloodthirsty men.
of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
And David said to Ahimelech, “Is there not
8 3 For look, they lie in wait for my life;
here on hand a spear or a sword? For I have The mighty gather against me,
brought neither my sword nor my weapons Not for my transgression nor for my
with me, because the king’s business required sin, O LORD.
haste.” 4 They run and prepare themselves
9 through no fault of mine.
So the priest said, “The sword of Goliath
the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Awake to help me, and behold!
Elah, there it is, wrapped in a cloth behind the 5 You therefore, O LORD God of hosts,
ephod. If you will take that, take it. For there is the God of Israel,
no other except that one here.” Awake to punish all the nations;
And David said, “There is none like it; give it Do not be merciful to any wicked
to me.” transgressors. Selah
10 Then David arose and fled that day from
before Saul, and went to Achish the king of Proverbs 15:31–33
Gath. And the servants of Achish said to him, 31 The ear that hears the rebukes of life
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“Is this not David the king of the land? Did Will abide among the wise.

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