1 Samuel 21
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One of a kind = Merriam-Webster = a person or thing that is not like any other person or thing
the Mona Lisa
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
the Statue of Liberty
the Titanic
you / me / David
Prayer
Oh God our Father in Heaven, how glorious that your book, your word, being thousands of years old, speaks to us even today! God we praise you for that!
400 Prayers for Preachers A Prayer on Approaching God
God of Israel, God of Jesus Christ, our God forever and ever; help us now by the sacred Spirit, to approach you aright, with deepest reverence, but not with servile fear; with holiest boldness, but not with presumption. Oh teach us as children to speak to the Father, and yet, as creatures to bow before our Maker.
CHARLES SPURGEON
as we gather before you today quicken our hearts and minds, and speak to us today! Amen.
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None Like It =
= David’s “Wilderness Experience”
Exposition of Txt
1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?” 2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. 3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.” 4 And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.” 5 And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?” 6 So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.
8 Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.” 9 And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”
1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”
David = Nob the priest - you can learn a lot about a person by seeing where they turn in times of trouble.
istance / priesthood line / alone?
Ahimelech = son of Ahitub = son of Phinehas = son of Eli
brother of Ahijah = spiritual advisor of Saul
why are you alone? = reminder
2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. 3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”
Deception…?
What shall we say to this? The scripture does not conceal it, and we dare not justify it. It was ill done, and proved of bad consequence; for it occasioned the death of the priests of the Lord, as David reflected upon it afterwards with regret, ch. 22:22. It was needless for him thus to dissemble with the priest, for we may suppose that, if he had told him the truth, he would have sheltered and relieved him as readily as Samuel did, and would have known the better how to advise him and enquire of God for him. People should be free with their faithful ministers. David was a man of great faith and courage, and yet now both failed him, and he fell thus foully through fear and cowardice, and both owing to the weakness of his faith. Had he trusted God aright, he would not have used such a sorry sinful shift as this for his own preservation. It is written, not for our imitation, no, not in the greatest straits, but for our admonition. Let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall; and let us all pray daily, Lord, lead us not into temptation. Let us all take occasion from this to lament, (1.) The weakness and infirmity of good men; the best are not perfect on this side heaven. There may be true grace where yet there are many failings. (2.) The wickedness of bad times, which forces good men into such straits as prove temptations too strong for them. Oppression makes a wise man do foolishly.
King = Saul / David / God
Alone = meet later… ?
Topic switch… hunger / provision?
Hospitality…
5 Loaves…
king? / hospitality / play on words hand… 5 loaves / hunger and sustenance
36 Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” 37 But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?” 38 And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.” 39 Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. 41 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all. 42 And they all ate and were satisfied. 43 And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. 44 And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.
4 And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”
1 Sam 21.
Common bread | Show Bread = Bread of the presence
12 Loafs - per Tribe // large loafs
Leviticus = Aaron priesthood // discarded & replaced - ‘sabbath’
holy bread… holy war…
sabbath / 12 / levites / holy for the holy…
1 and 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Commentary iii. Ahimelech the Priest Helps David (21:1–9)
united and total commitment to the cause of the Lord, in whose name the battle was being fought.
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
5 And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”
1 Sam 21.
5 And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”
6 So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
Common practice / Uriah / faithful in little = faithful in much…
6 So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
How could the priest do this… ?
33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy.
10 “A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing,
Lev
Jesus has a answer for this…
23 One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24 And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: 26 how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” 27 And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
Beloved, in Christ Jesus, it is not just holy bread that we are given but eternal life
The priest understanding this gives to David...
God orchestrated to illustrate…
Interesting narrative shift…
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.
Jacob / Esau = Edomite
Saul’s Victory…
47 When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.
Why was he there? / detained before the LORD…?
1 and 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Commentary iii. Ahimelech the Priest Helps David (21:1–9)
The word translated ‘chief’ (Heb. ʾabbîr) means ‘mighty’, but is also used to mean ‘violent’ and ‘obstinate’; the presence of this man was ominous
To Be Continued to Ch 22 = Doeg
8 Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
9 And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”
1 Sam 21.
8 Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
Deception…?
Did David know the sword was here?
9 And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”
Goliath’s sword / ephod / only one = one and only!
What we devote to God’s praise, and serve him with, is most likely to redound, one way or other, to our own comfort and benefit. What we gave we have.
The NIV Application Commentary: 1 & 2 Samuel David Flees to Ahimelech the Priest (21:1–9)
In his greatest hour of need, David is reminded that Yahweh has been his help in time of trouble (Ps. 34; 52; 56
Application of Txt = 5 Points
Better Bread
A Better Bread and Sword
to sustain us
manna = Jesus =
Better Sword
to fight with = attack / defense
to slay our enemies
sword of the LORD = |
Better Priest
to minister to us
Melchizedek = Jesus =
Better Mission
to be charged with
Better King
to serve
Better Hope
King of Kings =
to be served by
Better Mission
to be charged with
Better Message
“There is none like that; give it to me!”
Bread of Life =
32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
Jhn 6.60
66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jhn 6.66-
Sword of The Spirit
17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Heb 412
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Prayer
400 Prayers for Preachers We Thank You for Life Made Known to Us by Jesus
We thank you, our Father, for that life which you have made known to us by Jesus your Son, by whom you made all things, and take care of the whole world; whom you have sent to become man for our salvation; whom you have permitted to suffer and to die; whom you have raised up, and been pleased to glorify, and have set him down on your right hand; by whom you have promised us the resurrection of the dead.
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