Meyer calls the showbread “presence-bread.” To eat the showbread was to eat God’s bread in God’s house as a friend and a guest of the LORD, enjoying His hospitality. Literally, showbread means “bread of faces.” It is bread associated with, and to be eaten before, the face of God. The importance and meaning of the bread are found in its name. There is no common bread on hand but there is holy bread: The tabernacle of the LORD had a table that held twelve loaves of bread, symbolizing God’s continual fellowship with Israel. Give me five loaves of bread: When David came to the tabernacle in Nob he was hungry and knew he needed food both now and later.ī. And the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in effect common, even though it was consecrated in the vessel this day.” So the priest gave him holy bread for there was no bread there but the showbread which had been taken from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day when it was taken away.Ī. “Now therefore, what have you on hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found.” And the priest answered David and said, “ There is no common bread on hand but there is holy bread, if the young men have at least kept themselves from women.” Then David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us about three days since I came out. (3-6) David asks for and receives holy bread. The consequences of it were very sad…and afterward made his soul melt for very heaviness.” (Trapp) 2. “Some go about to excuse David’s lying here: but that cannot be. Later, David would come to bitterly regret this lie (as he says in 1 Samuel 22:22). Many of us would have done the same or worse in a similar situation. In many ways, we can understand why David lied and even sympathize with him. David elaborated on his lie when he put false words in the mouth of Saul to establish an environment of secrecy ( Do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you), and when he referred to “ my young men” (David was all alone). David came to the house of the LORD, but he lied to protect himself. The king has ordered me on some business: This was a plain lie. Plus, we can imagine that David looked tired, weary, disheveled, and probably looked like he had been crying a lot.Ĭ. It seemed strange and dangerous to him that David traveled alone. It seems that Ahimelech knew nothing of the conflict between David and Saul. It made Ahimelech think something was wrong, so he asked David, “ Why are you alone, and no one is with you?” Ahimelech was afraid when he met David: It seemed unusual to Ahimelech that a prominent man like David wandered around the villages of Judea by himself. To Ahimelech the priest: In his uncertain circumstances David went to the right place – the house of the LORD.ī. ![]() ![]() And Ahimelech was afraid when he met David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?” So David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has ordered me on some business, and said to me, ‘Do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you, or what I have commanded you.’ And I have directed my young men to such and such a place.”Ī. Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. (1-2) David, fleeing from Saul, comes to the city of Nob.
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