KJV King James Version
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man with thee?
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1 Samuel 21:1
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man with thee?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
WEB World English Bible
Then came David 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?”
ASV American Standard Version
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And David cometh in to Nob, unto Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech trembleth at meeting David, and saith to him, ‘Wherefore art thou thyself alone, and no man with thee?’
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 21
1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man with thee?
2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place.
3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
4 And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיָּבֹ֤אH935 · boto come (in): comeדָוִד֙H1732 · da.vidDavidנֹ֔בֶהH5011 · novNobאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)אֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְH288 · a.chi.me.lekhAhimelechהַכֹּהֵ֑ןH3548 · ko.henpriestוַיֶּחֱרַ֨דH2729 · cha.radto trembleאֲחִימֶ֜לֶךְH288 · a.chi.me.lekhAhimelechלִקְרַ֣אתH7122 · qa.rato encounter: meetדָּוִ֗דH1732 · da.vidDavidוַיֹּ֤אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayלוֹ֙H9033 · ohimמַדּ֤וּעַH4069 · mad.du.awhy?אַתָּה֙H859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)לְבַדֶּ֔ךָH905 · badalone: poleוְאִ֖ישׁH376 · ishmanאֵ֥יןH369 · a.yinnothingאִתָּֽךְ׃H854 · etwith
Cross-references
Nehemiah 11:32[And] at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,Mark 2:26How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?1 Samuel 14:3And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.Isaiah 10:32As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.1 Samuel 16:4And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?1 Samuel 22:9-19Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
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