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1 Samuel 21
La Palabra (España)
1 Samuel 21
La Palabra (España)
David, fugitivo de Saúl (21—26)
David y los sacerdotes de Nob
21 David se puso en camino y Jonatán volvió a la ciudad. 2 David llegó a Nob donde estaba el sacerdote Ajimélec. Este salió asustado a su encuentro y le preguntó:
— ¿Cómo es que vienes solo, sin nadie que te acompañe?
3 David le respondió:
— El rey me ha encomendado una misión y me ha dicho que nadie debía saber nada del asunto que me ha encargado y de la misión que me ha encomendado. En cuanto a mis subordinados, los he citado en un lugar determinado. 4 Y ahora, si los tienes a mano, dame cinco panes o lo que encuentres.
5 El sacerdote le dijo:
— No tengo pan corriente, sólo dispongo de pan consagrado, con tal de que tus subordinados se hayan abstenido de trato con mujeres. 6 David le contestó:
— Por supuesto, siempre que salimos de campaña, nos abstenemos de mujeres. Y si los muchachos van purificados cuando se trata de una misión corriente, ¡con mayor razón lo estarán hoy!
7 Entonces el sacerdote le dio pan consagrado, pues allí no había más pan que el de la ofrenda, que había sido retirado de la presencia del Señor para ser sustituido por pan tierno.
8 Aquel día andaba por allí uno de los servidores de Saúl, que había tenido que quedarse en el santuario. Se llamaba Doeg, el edomita, y era el jefe de los pastores de Saúl.
9 David preguntó a Ajimélec:
— ¿No tienes a mano una lanza o una espada? Pues, como la misión encomendada por el rey era urgente, no he traído ni mi espada ni mis armas.
10 El sacerdote le respondió:
— Ahí está la espada de Goliat, el filisteo, al que mataste en el valle de Elá. Está envuelta en un paño detrás del efod. Si la quieres, llévatela, pues aquí no hay otra.
David le dijo:
— ¡No hay otra igual! Dámela.
11 David siguió huyendo aquel día lejos de Saúl y llegó donde Aquís, rey de Gat. 12 Los servidores de Aquís le dijeron:
— Ese es David, el rey del país, al que le cantaban bailando aquello de “Saúl mató a mil y David a diez mil”. 13 David se preocupó por aquellos comentarios y sintió miedo de Aquís, el rey de Gat. 14 Entonces modificó su aspecto y se hizo el loco ante ellos arañando las puertas y dejando que la baba le chorreara por la barba. 15 Aquís dijo a sus criados:
— ¿No veis que ese hombre está loco? ¿Para qué me lo habéis traído? 16 ¿No tengo ya bastantes maniáticos, para que me traigáis uno más a hacer tonterías en mi presencia? ¿Qué pinta este en mi palacio?
1 Samuel 21
New International Version
1 Samuel 21
New International Version
David at Nob
21 [a]David went to Nob,(A) to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled(B) when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
2 David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. 3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread(C) on hand; however, there is some consecrated(D) bread here—provided the men have kept(E) themselves from women.”
5 David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual(F) whenever[b] I set out. The men’s bodies are holy(G) even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!” 6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread,(H) since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
7 Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; he was Doeg(I) the Edomite,(J) Saul’s chief shepherd.
8 David asked Ahimelek, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king’s mission was urgent.”
9 The priest replied, “The sword(K) of Goliath(L) the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah,(M) is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.”
David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
David at Gath
10 That day David fled from Saul and went(N) to Achish king of Gath. 11 But the servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one they sing about in their dances:
“‘Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his tens of thousands’?”(O)
12 David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. 13 So he pretended to be insane(P) in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.
14 Achish said to his servants, “Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? 15 Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?”
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 21:1 In Hebrew texts 21:1-15 is numbered 21:2-16.
- 1 Samuel 21:5 Or from us in the past few days since
1 Samuel 21
King James Version
1 Samuel 21
King James Version
21 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?
2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
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