1 Samuel 21

1 and to come (in): come David Nob [to] to(wards) Ahimelech [the] priest and to tremble Ahimelech to/for to encounter: meet David and to say to/for him why? you(m. s.) to/for alone you and man: anyone nothing with you

Then David came to Nob to see Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, “Why are you alone and have no one with you?”

2 and to say David to/for Ahimelech [the] priest [the] king to command me word: thing and to say to(wards) me man: anyone not to know anything [obj] [the] word: thing which I to send: depart you and which to command you and [obj] [the] youth to know to(wards) place someone someone

David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has sent me on a mission and has said to me, 'Let no one know anything about the business I am sending you, and what I have commanded you.' I have directed the young men to a certain place.

3 and now what? there underneath: owning hand: owner your five food: bread to give: give [emph?] in/on/with hand: owner my or [the] to find

Now then what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”

4 and to answer [the] priest [obj] David and to say nothing food: bread common to(wards) underneath: owning hand: owner my for if: except food: bread holiness there if to keep: guard [the] youth surely from woman

The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”

5 and to answer David [obj] [the] priest and to say to/for him that if: except if: except woman to restrain to/for us like/as yesterday three days ago in/on/with to come out: come I and to be article/utensil [the] youth holiness and he/she/it way: journey common and also for [the] day to consecrate: consecate in/on/with article/utensil

David answered the priest, “Surely women have been kept from us for the past three days, as usual when I set out. The things belonging to the men have been set apart even on ordinary missions. How much more today will what they have be set apart!”

6 and to give: give to/for him [the] priest holiness for not to be there food: bread for if: except food: bread [the] face [the] to turn aside: remove from to/for face: before LORD to/for to set: put food: bread heat in/on/with day to take: take he

So the priest gave him the bread that was set apart. For there was no bread there except the bread of the presence, which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day it was taken away.

7 and there man from servant/slave Saul in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to restrain to/for face: before LORD and name his Doeg [the] Edomite mighty: strong [the] to pasture which to/for Saul

Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.

8 and to say David to/for Ahimelech and isn't? there here underneath: owning hand: owner your spear or sword for also sword my and also article/utensil my not to take: bring in/on/with hand: owner my for to be word: thing [the] king to urge

David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not here on hand any spear or sword? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business was urgent.”

9 and to say [the] priest sword Goliath [the] Philistine which to smite in/on/with Valley (of Elah) [the] (Valley of) Elah behold he/she/it to wrap in/on/with mantle after [the] ephod if [obj] her to take: take to/for you to take: take for nothing another exception her in/on/with this and to say David nothing like her to give: give her to/for me

The priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take that, take it, for there is no other weapon here.” David said, “There is no other sword like that one; give it to me.”

10 and to arise: rise David and to flee in/on/with day [the] he/she/it from face: before Saul and to come (in): come to(wards) Achish king Gath

David arose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish, the king of Gath.

11 and to say servant/slave Achish to(wards) him not this David king [the] land: country/planet not to/for this to sing in/on/with dance to/for to say to smite Saul (in/on/with thousand his *Q(K)*) and David (in/on/with myriad his *Q(K)*)

Achish's servants said to him, “Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another about him in dances, 'Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands?'”

12 and to set: consider David [obj] [the] word [the] these in/on/with heart his and to fear much from face of Achish king Gath

David took these words to heart and was very afraid of Achish, the king of Gath.

13 and to change him [obj] taste his in/on/with eye: before(the eyes) their and to be foolish in/on/with hand: power their (and to mark *Q(k)*) upon door [the] gate and to go down spittle his to(wards) beard his

He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands; he made marks on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.

14 and to say Achish to(wards) servant/slave his behold to see: see man be mad to/for what? to come (in): bring [obj] him to(wards) me

Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is mad. Why have you brought him to me?

15 lacking be mad I for to come (in): bring [obj] this to/for be mad upon me this to come (in): come to(wards) house: home my

Do I lack madmen, so that you have brought this fellow to behave like one in my presence? Will this fellow really come into my house?”