1 Samuel 21:1-2

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

David and the Holy Bread

21 ^[a] David came to Nob to the priest Ahimelech. Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?” ² David said to the priest Ahimelech, “The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, ‘No one must know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment^[b] with the young men for such and such a place.