David cometh to Nob to Ahimelech the prieft : pretendeth ſecret buſineſs from Saul ; asketh bread : Abimelech giveth him the ſhew-bread, 1,——6. Doeg ſeeth this, 7. David atketh arms: Ahimeleeh giveth him Goliahs ſword, 8. 9. David cometh to Achiſh : is known : and afraid: fergneth himſelf mad, 10,—13. Achiſh is angry with his ſervants for bring- ing hin, I4, I5. ; led Abian
Hen carne David to Nob a to Ahimelech the, _ prieſt b, and * Ahimelech was afraid at the meer- ,, 5, S 2X 4 ing
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* me five loaves of bread in mine nand, or what Þ there
afierwards'it is eaten by che Prieſt, and by his whole Family, as their:common Food ; andfſo it maybe by us, in our circumſtances.
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is <2 . - and no man with thee d 3 | x (te ſ Fa Ciry of Prieſts, as it is called Chap. 22. 19. 44 nl? cauſe ir was aſſigned to the Prieſts. go though 'S abokr be one fed by this Name among their Cities, Joſh. 21. yet 1 which Name of thoſe Cities there named by ſome other ay h the old for might be changed ; or another new Name adde the Hebrew! : ſome reaſon now unknown, a5 wan ers inhabited by the K 1t wa "umpare 1 Chron. 6. Or, 2. Becaule 1 : ac h:re; 2s Kut 5 for the ſervice of the Tabernacle, which now ___ d irs appears from wv, 7, 9- For as the Kings of 1ſrae! were of: — og: ods Oracle in all their weighty Affairs; ſo they 7 "firſ carried have it in, or near theix qwn Habitations. Hence it PT LE Dvs by Joſhua to Shiloh in his Tribe of Ephraim ; _ TE by —_ > Gp t ſeems ;nto his Tribe and City ; and now, as 1t Teems, rto Carried ro Nob, a City in the Tribe of Benjamin, Neb. 11. 32. N63
Hnatheth, 1 King. 2. 26. Hither David reſorted, partly for 2 ſupply
{ : : Kg icht receive here, witt- cf his Neceſſities, which he ſuppoſed he mig ah otincipally, that
ayed into Sauls hands: ar "ns fn his R:ſolurion of going eut of the Ring: d& s might ſcek and receive Comfort and Counſel from the tank e* To wit, the chief prieſt, Brother to that 66] nt is 3 and he being now _ oem > pie ding b of Ahicub, t Sam. 14. 3.and 22. I. g a 5 rr cauſe of his coming in ſuch a 37 60 {Hgens way ing the worſt, as Men uſually do in ſuch caſes. 4 oy FROVE * ©id had ſome Servants and Companions, as 15 mani w _ 4: 5. and from Matth. 12. 2, 4. whom Jonathan prob:bly lk hd a place appointed to ſerve and guard him; yet they were Je 4 af nother place : as David himſelf affirmeth, v. 2. And Dav: now alcne, as alſo he was when he fled to Achijb, v. 10. F . 2 And David ſaid unto Ahimelech the prielt, The king hath commanded me a bulinels e, = —_— unto me, Let no man know any thing O the buſineſs
ſend thee, and what I have' commanded thee : and I have axpointed my ſervants | to fuch and ſuch a place f.
+ This ſeems to be a plain Lye extorted from him, by Fear and Neceflity But as it was officious for himſelf, ſo ic was pernicicus to all the Prieſts there, Whence David afterwards declares his Re- peEntance fr this ſin of Lying, Pſalm I1y. 29. 7 To 3 Ccrtain plac? which isnot materia] nor convenient NOW TO mention; becaute the whole buſineſs requires concealment. | :
Now theiefore whar is under thine hand g ? give
is + preſent. £ Fo wit, in thy Power, and ak nd ezr. : / 5 : |: TY ho prieft anſwered David, and ſaid, There is no common bread under mine hand h, but there is * hallowed bread 3, if the young men have kept them-
el aſt from women Ke |
rt de iog a in the Tabernacle: though doubtleſs he had enough of that, and of cther Proviſicnsin his Houſe; but David was in great haſte, and in fear of Dog whom he ſaw, and knew there. chap. 22. 22. and therefore would not ſtay till any thing could be ferchea thence. #{ The Shew-bread, which was appropriated tothe Prieſt ; of which fee Exod. 25. 39. Levit. 24. 5. k Either from un- cleanneſs by Women, which might be divers ways contrattec : or from Conjugal converſe with their Wives ; which though it did not defile rhem, yet be thought might debar then from the parti- cipation of ſuch very Sacred things; which he gathered by the Analogy of that Prec-pr, Exed. 19. 15. There was a double impe- diment to the giving of this Bread to chem ; 1. Its Sacredneſs in its ſelf : which the Prieſt implies, and David Anſwers wv. 5. and the Prieſt was ſatisfied therein by Davids extraordinary Occafions, and great Neceſſities. 2. The Purity and Abſtinence from all Women, which he ſuppoſeth ſhould be 1n thoſe that uſe It; concerning which he now enquires. And though he mention this only con- cerning Davids young Men, and out of Modeſty and Reverence to David, farbears toname him ; yet heis alio incluied in the number, as Davids anſwer ſhews.
ready for thee to give, and forme
5 And David anſwered the prieft, and faid unto|
him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about theſe three days /, fince 1 came out », and the veſlels x of the voung men are holy, and the bread is in aman- ner common o: || yea, though ir were ſanRified this
day in the veſlel p. 4
Tiks long as the 1 os required, Exod. W9.15. And fo long Da- wid and his men bad, it ſeems, hid themſelves for fear of Saul jn ſome of thoſe Caves, whereof there were many in thoſe parts ; whereby they were kept both from'all Converſe with any other per- ſons beſides themſelves, and conſequently from Women: and with- al, from Food convenient for them. wm From the place where Jona- wc 2nd David met. . nz. e, Either, 1. Their Garments, or other Utenſils for their Journey. Or, 2. Their Bodies, for of them the Queſtion was, v. 4. and having now ſaid, that Women had been kept from them, he infers, that therefore their Bodies were Holy; their Members wer undefiled. Thus the word v:ſ{/ is uſed, 1 Theſ. 4.4: andin other Aurhors, both Greek and Latin. o Heb.” and this ( to wit, the Bread; which.is eaſily fupplied out of the former Verſe, becauſe that wasthe.thing about which the preſent diſcourſe was, and againſt the giving whercof the Prieſt ſtarted an Objc&i- ON, w- 4+ to which, David here giveth an Anſwer ) is in a manner, or, ajter & ſort common : 4+ e. Conſidering the time, and our neceſſity, this may be agked in a'manner, like common. Bread, and ſo 1s uſed