¹Then 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?

¹A Dávid prišiel do Nóba k Achimelechovi, kňazovi. A Achimelech sa tak preľakol, že trasúci sa išiel vústrety Dávidovi a riekol mu: Prečo si len sám, a prečo niet nikoho s tebou?

²And 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.

²Dávid odpovedal Achimelechovi, kňazovi: Kráľ mi rozkázal nejakú vec a riekol mi: Nech nikto nezvie ničoho o veci, pre ktorú ťa posielam a ktorú som ti rozkázal vykonať. A služobníkom som nariadil, aby odišli na to a na to miesto.

³Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

³Preto teraz, čo máš po ruke? Daj mi do ruky nejakých päť chlebov alebo už čokoľvek, čo sa najde.

⁴And 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.

⁴A kňaz odpovedal Dávidovi a riekol: Nemám obecného chleba pod rukou. Je tu iba posvätný chlieb, jestli sa mládenci zachovali aspoň od ženy.

⁵And 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.

⁵Na to odpovedal Dávid a riekol mu: Nie, lež už predtým, ako som vyšiel, bola nám žena neprístupnou, a tedy sú nádoby mládencov sväté. No, je to už aj ináče obecný spôsob, a čo ešte dnes! Bude svätý v nádobe.

⁶So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

⁶A tak mu dal kňaz sväté, lebo tam nebolo iného chleba krome chleba predloženia, ktoré to chleby boly odložené zpred tvári Hospodinovej, aby na ich miesto boly položené teplé chleby v deň, v ktorý boly tamtie vzaté.

⁷Now 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.

⁷Ale bol tam nejaký muž zo služobníkov Saulových toho dňa, ktorý sa tam bol v shromaždení zdržal pred Hospodinom, a ktorému bolo meno Doég Edomejský, najmožnejší z pastierov, ktorých mal Saul.

⁸And 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.

⁸A Dávid povedal Achimelechovi: Či nie je niekde pod tvojou rukou kopija alebo meč, lebo som nevzal ani svojho meča, ani inej svojej zbrane do svojej ruky, pretože bola vec kráľova súrna.

⁹And 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.

⁹Na to odpovedal kňaz: Meč Goliáša Filištínskeho, ktorého si zabil v doline Éla, ten hľa, je tu zavinutý v rúchu za efodom, ak si ten vezmeš, nuž vezmi si, lebo nieto tu iného krome toho. A Dávid povedal: Takého nieto, jako je ten; daj mi ho.

¹⁰And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

¹⁰Potom vstal Dávid a utekal toho dňa pred Saulom a prišiel k Achišovi, kráľovi mesta Gát.

¹¹And 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?

¹¹A služobníci Achišovi povedali jemu, Achišovi: Či nie je toto Dávid, kráľ zeme? Či to nespievali tomuto v kolotancoch hovoriac: Saul porazil svoje tisíce, ale Dávid svoje desaťtisíce?

¹²And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

¹²A Dávid si vzal tie slová k srdcu a bál sa veľmi Achiša, kráľa Gátu,

¹³And he changed his behavior 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.

¹³a preto zmeniac svoj rozum v ich očiach robil sa bláznom súc v ich ruke a čmáral po vrátach brány a púšťal svoje brzgy dolu po svojej brade.

¹⁴Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

¹⁴Vtedy povedal Achiš svojim služobníkom: Hľa, vidíte, že človek blázni, prečo ste ho doviedli ku mne?

¹⁵Have 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?

¹⁵Či azda nemám dosť bláznov, že ste doviedli tohoto, aby bláznil predo mnou? Či tento má vojsť do môjho domu?