21:1 大衛到了挪伯祭司亞希米勒那裡，亞希米勒戰戰兢兢地出來迎接他，問他說：「你為甚麼獨自來，沒有人跟隨呢？」
21:2 大衛回答祭司亞希米勒說：「王吩咐我一件事說：『我差遣你委託你的這件事，不要使人知道。』故此我已派定少年人在某處等候我。
21:3 現在你手下有甚麼？求你給我五個餅或是別樣的食物。」
21:4 祭司對大衛說：「我手下沒有尋常的餅，只有聖餅；若少年人沒有親近婦人才可以給。」
21:5 大衛對祭司說：「實在約有三日我們沒有親近婦人；我出來的時候，雖是尋常行路，少年人的器皿還是潔淨的；何況今日不更是潔淨嗎？」
21:6 祭司就拿聖餅給他；因為在那裡沒有別樣餅，只有更換新餅，從耶和華面前撤下來的陳設餅。
21:7 （當日有掃羅的一個臣子留在耶和華面前。他名叫多益，是以東人，作掃羅的司牧長。）
21:8 大衛問亞希米勒說：「你手下有槍有刀沒有？因為王的事甚急，連刀劍器械我都沒有帶。」
21:9 祭司說：「你在以拉谷殺非利士人歌利亞的那刀在這裡，裹在布中，放在以弗得後邊，你要就可以拿去；除此以外，再沒有別的。」大衛說：「這刀沒有可比的！求你給我。」
21:10 那日大衛起來，躲避掃羅，逃到迦特王亞吉那裡。
21:11 亞吉的臣僕對亞吉說：「這不是以色列國王大衛嗎？那裡的婦女跳舞唱和，不是指著他說『掃羅殺死千千，大衛殺死萬萬』嗎？」
21:12 大衛將這話放在心裡，甚懼怕迦特王亞吉，
21:13 就在眾人面前改變了尋常的舉動，在他們手下假裝瘋癲，在城門的門扇上胡寫亂畫，使唾沫流在鬍子上。
21:14 亞吉對臣僕說：「你們看，這人是瘋子。為甚麼帶他到我這裡來呢？
21:15 我豈缺少瘋子，你們帶這人來在我面前瘋癲嗎？這人豈可進我的家呢？」
David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled 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 on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”
5 David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever[b] I set out. The men’s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!” 6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, 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 the Edomite, 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 of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, 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.”
10 That day David fled from Saul and went 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’?”
12 David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. 13 So he pretended to be insane 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?”
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主耶穌曾經拿這件事情來回應法利賽人，正如《馬可福音》2章23-28節的敘述。而主耶穌所要凸顯的是：上帝的眷顧勝過律法的要求！因為，上帝設立律法的目的，是要使人得著保護，不是要使人受害。主耶穌更是宣告：「安息日是為人設立的，人不是為安息日設立的。所以，人子也是安息日的主。」
的確，大衛和跟隨的人為了逃避掃羅的追殺，已經至少三天沒有吃東西，都快餓死了，若是吃了陳設餅就可以救命，難道上帝會不喜悅嗎？當然不會的，因為上帝是何等愛大衛，恨不得將一切美物賜給大衛，何況是陳設餅呢！
羅馬書8章32節說到：「上帝既不愛惜自己的兒子，為我們眾人捨了，豈不也把萬物和他一同白白地賜給我們嗎？」
因此，我們要想到上帝對人是何等的憐憫，我們也要像主一般憐憫人，正如身為祭司的亞希米勒，憐憫大衛不只給大衛吃飽還給大衛防身的武器！上帝是何等記念這事，還透過主耶穌來宣講！
而主耶穌的登山寶訓也說到：「憐恤人的人有福了！因為他們必蒙憐恤。」(馬太福音5:7)
讓我們靠著主的愛彼此憐恤，上帝的憐恤必定臨到我們，使我們享受永生無限！
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