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1 Samuel 21:7-9
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1 Samuel 21:7-9
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7 (Incidentally, Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief herdsman, was there at that time for ceremonial purification.[a])
8 David asked Ahimelech if he had a spear or sword he could use. “The king’s business required such haste, and I left in such a rush that I came away without a weapon!” David explained.
9 “Well,” the priest replied, “I have the sword of Goliath, the Philistine—the fellow you killed in the valley of Elah. It is wrapped in a cloth in the clothes closet.[b] Take that if you want it, for there is nothing else here.”
“Just the thing!” David replied. “Give it to me!”
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- 1 Samuel 21:7 was there at that time for ceremonial purification, literally, “detained before the Lord.”
- 1 Samuel 21:9 in the clothes closet, literally, “behind the ephod.”
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