1 Samuel 21:1

Then came David to Nob, unto Ahimelech, the priest,—and Ahimelech trembled when he met David, and said unto him—Why art thou, alone, and, no man, with thee?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The 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?

In Context

2And David said unto Ahimelech the priest—The king, hath charged me with a matter, and hath said unto me—Let, no man, know aught of the business on which I am sending thee, and with which I have charged thee,—But, unto the young men, have I appointed, such and such a place.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 16:4And Samuel did that which Yahweh had spoken, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him, and one said—Peaceably, comest thou?

1 Samuel 23:18And they two solemnised a covenant before Yahweh,—and David remained in the thicket, but, Jonathan, departed to his own house.

Isaiah 10:32While yet to-day, in Nob, he tarrieth, He brandisheth his hand toward The mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 21:1

David has now quite taken leave both of Saul's court and of his camp, has bidden farewell to his alter idem—his other self, the beloved Jonathan; and henceforward to the end of this book he is looked upon and treated as an outlaw and proclaimed a traitor. We still find him shifting from place to place for his own safety, and Saul pursuing him. His troubles are very particularly related in this and the following chapters, not only to be a key to the Psalms, but that he might be, as other prophets, an example to the… Read the whole commentary →

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