1 Then came David [beloved] to Nov [high place] to Achi-Melekh [my brother is king] the priest: and Achi-Melekh [my brother is king] was afraid at the meeting of David [beloved], and said unto him, Why [are] youi alone, and no man with youi?

2 And David [beloved] said unto Achi-Melekh [my brother is king] the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said unto me, Let no man know anything of the business about which I send youi, and what I have commanded youi: and I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place.

3 Now therefore what is under youi hand? give [me] five [loaves of] bread in my hand, or what there is present.

4 And the priest answered David [beloved], and said, [There is] no common bread under my hand, but there is consecrated bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

5 And David [beloved] answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a twomen [have been] kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and [the bread is] in a manner common, yes, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

6 So the priest gave him consecrated [bread]: for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

7 Now a certain man of the servants of Sha’ul [desired] [was] there that day, detained before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and his name [was] Do’eg [fearing], an Edomi [red], the most important of the herdsmen that [belonged] to Sha’ul [desired].

8 And David [beloved] said unto Achi-Melekh [my brother is king], And is there not here under youi hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.

9 And the priest said, The sword of Golyat [splendor] the P’lishtim [immigrants], whom youi killed in the valley of Elah [an oak], behold, it [is here] wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod (vest): if youi will take that, take [it]: for [there is] no other save that here. And David [beloved] said, [There is] none like that; give it me.

10 And David [beloved] arose, and fled that day for fear of Sha’ul [desired], and went to Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] the king of Gat [Winepress].

11 And the servants of Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] said unto him, [Is] not this David [beloved] the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Sha’ul [desired] has slain his thousands, and David [beloved] his ten thousands?

12 And David [beloved] laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] the king of Gat [Winepress].

13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

14 Then said Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] unto his servants, Lo, you2f see the man is mad: wherefore [then] have you2f brought him to me?

15 Have I need of mad men, that you2f have brought this [fellow] to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come into my house?