David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king gave me a mission and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the mission I am sending you on and what I have commanded you.’ I have told the young men to meet me at a certain place.
Traditional numbering: 21:2
In context
1David got up and left, and Jonathan went back into the city. 2David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he met David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, with no one accompanying you?” 3David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king gave me a mission and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the mission I am sending you on and what I have commanded you.’ I have told the young men to meet me at a certain place. 4Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.” 5The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread on hand, only consecrated bread — provided the young men have kept themselves from women.”
