(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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1 Samuel 21:1–9, “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? 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. Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.”
By this time Saul had become a paranoid and erratic leader so everyone in the kingdom was on edge. No one knew if someone else was watching and would pass a message on to say that they weren’t behaving in the king’s interests. Ahimelech, the priest, was concerned when David came to meet him because David was alone even though he was a senior commander in the army. David told the priest that he was doing secret business for the king and would meet his men in another place so no one else should know what was happening. David was hungry and he knew his men would be hungry so he wanted some food and asked the priest if there was any food. There was only bread that was dedicated to the priests but Ahimelech told David he could take it for his men as long as they were ceremonially clean. David also needed a weapon and Goliath’s sword, that David had taken as a trophy in combat with the giant was also evadable so David took that sword as well. One of Saul’s spies saw what was happening, He wasn’t even an Israeli but came from the Edom, the home of Esau’s descendants. He was in charge of the king’s herds. He saw what was happening.
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