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1 Samuele 21
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
1 Samuele 21
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
21 Davide si alzò e partì e Giònata tornò in città.
La sosta a Nob
2 Davide si recò a Nob dal sacerdote Achimelech. Achimelech, turbato, andò incontro a Davide e gli disse: «Perché sei solo e non c'è nessuno con te?». 3 Rispose Davide al sacerdote Achimelech: «Il re mi ha ordinato e mi ha detto: Nessuno sappia niente di questa cosa per la quale ti mando e di cui ti ho dato incarico. Ai miei uomini ho dato appuntamento al tal posto. 4 Ora però se hai a disposizione cinque pani, dammeli, o altra cosa che si possa trovare». 5 Il sacerdote rispose a Davide: «Non ho sottomano pani comuni, ho solo pani sacri: se i tuoi giovani si sono almeno astenuti dalle donne, potete mangiarne». 6 Rispose Davide al sacerdote: «Ma certo! Dalle donne ci siamo astenuti da tre giorni. Come sempre quando mi metto in viaggio, i giovani sono mondi, sebbene si tratti d'un viaggio profano; tanto più oggi essi sono mondi». 7 Il sacerdote gli diede il pane sacro, perché non c'era là altro pane che quello dell'offerta, ritirato dalla presenza del Signore, per essere sostituito con pane fresco nel giorno in cui si toglie. 8 Ma era là in quel giorno uno dei ministri di Saul, trattenuto presso il Signore, di nome Doeg, Idumeo, capo dei pastori di Saul. 9 Davide disse ad Achimelech: «Non hai per caso sottomano una lancia o una spada? Io non ho preso con me né la lancia né altra arma, perché l'incarico del re era urgente». 10 Il sacerdote rispose: «Guarda, c'è la spada di Golia, il Filisteo che tu hai ucciso nella valle del Terebinto; è là dietro l'efod, avvolta in un manto. Se vuoi, portala via, prendila, perché qui non c'è altra spada che questa». Rispose Davide: «Non ce n'è una migliore; dammela».
Davide presso i Filistei
11 Quel giorno Davide si alzò e si allontanò da Saul e giunse da Achis, re di Gat. 12 I ministri di Achis gli dissero: «Non è costui Davide, il re del paese? Non cantavano in coro in onore di lui:
Ha ucciso Saul i suoi mille
e Davide i suoi diecimila?».
13 Davide si preoccupò di queste parole e temette molto Achis re di Gat. 14 Allora cominciò a fare il pazzo ai loro occhi, a fare il folle tra le loro mani; tracciava segni sui battenti delle porte e lasciava colare la saliva sulla barba. 15 Achis disse ai ministri: «Ecco, vedete anche voi che è un pazzo. Perché lo avete condotto da me? Non ho abbastanza pazzi io perché mi conduciate anche costui per fare il folle davanti a me? Dovrebbe entrare in casa mia un uomo simile?».
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?
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
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