📖WEB · 1 Samuel 21:1

What does 1 Samuel 21:1 mean?

"Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”"

— 1 Samuel 21:1 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”

2

David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’

3

Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”

4

The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

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