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appointed my avadim to such and such a place.
3 Now therefore what is under your hand? Give me five
loaves of lechem in my hand, or what there is present.
4 And the kohen answered Dawid, and said, There is no
common lechem on hand, but there is kadosh lechem; if
the young men have kept themselves at least from
women.
5 And Dawid answered the kohen, and said to him, Of an
emet women have been kept from us around three days,
since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are
kadosh, but the lechem is practically common, even
though it was kadosh this day in the vessel.
6 So the kohen gave him kadosh lechem: for there was no
lechem there but the Lechem of the Panayim, that was
taken from before vuvh, to put hot lechem in the day
when it was taken away.
7 Now a certain man of the avadim of Shaul was there
that day, detained before vuvh; and his name was Doeg,
an Edomite, the head of the herdsmen that belonged to
Shaul.
8 And Dawid said to Achimelech, And is there not here
under your hand spear, or sword? For I have neither
brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the
melech's business was urgent.
9 And the kohen said, The sword of Golyat the Plishti,
whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, see, it is here
wrapped in a cloth behind the shoulder garment: if you
want to take that, take it: for there is no other one except
that here. And Dawid said, There is none like that; give it
me.
10 And Dawid arose, and fled that day for fear of Shaul,
and went to Achish the melech of Gat.
11 And the avadim of Achish said to him, Is not this
Dawid the melech of the land? Did they not sing one to
another of him in dances, saying, Shaul has killed his
thousands, and Dawid his ten thousands?
12 And Dawid laid up these words in his lev, and was
very afraid of Achish the melech of Gat.
13 And he changed his behavior before them, and
pretended to be crazy in their hands, and scratched on the
doors of the gate, and let his saliva fall down upon his
beard.
14 Then said Achish to his avadim, Look, you see the
man is crazy: why then have you brought him to me?
15 Have I need of crazy men, that you have brought this
fellow to play the crazy man in my presence? Shall this
fellow even come into my bayit?
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Dawid therefore departed from there, and escaped to
the cave Adullam: and when his brothers and all his
abba's bayit heard it, they went down there to him.
2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that
was in debt, and every one that was discontented,
gathered themselves to him; and he became a leader over
them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
3 And Dawid went there to Mitzpah of Moav: and he said
to the melech of Moav, Let my abba and my eema, I ask
you, come forth, and be with you, until I know what
Elohim will do for me.
4 And he brought them before the melech of Moav: and
they dwelt with him all the while that Dawid was in the
stronghold.
5 And the navi Gad said to Dawid, Do not stay in the
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stronghold; depart, and get into the land of Yahudah.
Then Dawid departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
6 When Shaul heard that Dawid was discovered, and the
men that were with him - now Shaul stayed in Givat
under an eytz in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and
all his avadim were standing around him -
7 Then Shaul said to his avadim that stood around him,
Listen now, you Benyamites; will the son of Yishai give
every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all
captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds?
8 All of you have conspired against me, and there is none
that has shown me that my son has made a pact with the
son of Yishai, and there is none of you that is sorry for
me, or shown to me that my son has stirred up my eved
against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.
9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over
the avadim of Shaul, and said, I saw the son of Yishai
coming to Nov, to Achimelech the son of Achituv.
10 And he inquired of vuvh for him, and gave him food,
and gave him the sword of Golyat the Plishti.
11 Then the melech sent to call Achimelech the kohen,
the son of Achituv, and all his abba's bayit, the Kohanim
that were in Nov: and they came all of them to the
melech.
12 And Shaul said, Listen now, you son of Achituv. And
he answered, Hinayni, my master.
13 And Shaul said to him, Why have you conspired
against me, you and the son of Yishai, in that you have
given him lechem, and a sword, and have inquired of
Elohim for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in
wait, as at this day?
14 Then Achimelech answered the melech, and said, And
who is so faithful among all your avadim as Dawid,
which is the melech's son-in-law, and goes at your
bidding, and is honorable in your bayit?
15 Did I then begin to inquire of Elohim for him? Be it far
from me: let not the melech impute anything unto his
eved, nor to all the bayit of my abba: for your eved knew
nothing of all this, not a little, not a lot.
16 And the melech said, You shall surely die,
Achimelech, you, and all your abba's bayit.
17 And the melech said to the footmen that stood around
him, Turn, and kill the Kohanim of vuvh; because their
hand also is with Dawid, and because they knew when he
fled, and did not show it to me. But the avadim of the
melech would not put forth their hand to fall upon the
Kohanim of vuvh.
18 And the melech said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall upon
the Kohanim. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell
upon the Kohanim, and killed on that day eighty-five
persons that did wear a linen shoulder garment.
19 And Nov, the city of the Kohanim, Doeg smote with
the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and
those nursing, and cattle, and donkeys, and sheep, with
the edge of the sword.
20 And one of the sons of Achimelech the son of Achituv,
named Aviathar, escaped, and fled after Dawid.
21 And Aviathar showed Dawid that Shaul had killed
vuvh's Kohanim.
22 And Dawid said to Aviathar, I knew it that day, when
Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell
Shaul: I have caused the death of all the persons of your
abba's bayit.