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David's stay in the city of Nob. Flight to one of the Philistine kings, Achish.
1 Samuel 21:1. And David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech was embarrassed when he met David and said to him: Why are you alone, and no one is with you?
Nomva - northeast of Jerusalem. It can be assumed that the tabernacle of the Lord was currently located here.
“To Ahimelech the High Priest”: in Mark 2:26, when this event is mentioned, Abiathar is named. It is believed that the evangelist named a son instead of his father, who, due to his father’s old age, was supposedly fulfilling his high priestly duties. But, bearing in mind 2 Samuel 8:17 and 1 Chronicles 18:16, we must give preference to another assumption, that both father and son bore a double name: Ahimelech-Abiathar.
“And Ahimelech was troubled”: the relationship between Saul and David could not, of course, be unknown to the high priest. The arrival of the king's son-in-law without a proper retinue made the high priest assume that David was being persecuted and was therefore unsafe for those who would try to hide him from the king.
1 Samuel 21:2. And David said to Ahimelech the priest: The king entrusted me with the matter and said to me: “Let no one know why I sent you or what I entrusted you with”; That's why I left the people at a certain place;
David’s invented pretext for visiting the city of Nob, as well as his fictitious explanation of his desire to receive the sacred bread and the sword of Goliath (1 Samuel 21:3–6, 8–9) can be explained by the truly hopeless situation in which the innocently persecuted David found himself.
1 Samuel 21:3. So, give me whatever you have on hand, five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.
1 Samuel 21:4. And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but there is holy bread; if only your people abstain from women, [let them eat].
1 Samuel 21:5. And David answered the priest and said to him: There were no women with us either yesterday or the third day since I left, and the vessels of the youths are clean, and if the road is unclean, then the bread will remain clean in the vessels.
1 Samuel 21:6. And the priest gave him the sacred bread; for he had no bread except the showbread, which was taken from the presence of the Lord, so that after they had been taken away he could put in warm bread.
1 Samuel 21:10. And David arose and fled that same day from Saul, and came to Achish king of Gath.
Gath is one of the main Philistine cities west of Bethlehem. See note. to 1 Samuel 6:17.
1 Samuel 21:13. And he changed his face before them, and pretended to be mad in their eyes, and drew on the doors, [threw himself on his hands], and drooled down his beard.
“And he changed his face,” i.e. “pretended to be mad” so as not to arouse suspicion among the Philistines about any hidden political goals of his arrival among them.
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