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1 Samuel 21:2

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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.’

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1 Samuel 21:2 in other translations

And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know anything of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.

1 Samuel 21:2 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 21:2 in context

  1. 1Then 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. 2David 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. 3Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
  4. 4The 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.”