Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 21:11

A church father on this verse
“Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose u…”
Clement of Rome, 1th c. — Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4

Source: Septuagint

Original

11And he gave it him; and David arose, and fled in that day from the presence of Saul: and David came to Achish king of Gath.

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9And David said to Ahimelech, See if there is here under thy hand spear or sword, for I have not brought in my hand my sword or my weapons, for the word of the king was urgent.

10And the priest said, Behold the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou smotest in the Valley of Elah; and it is wrapped in a cloth: if thou wilt take it, take it for thyself, for there is no other except it here. And David said, Behold, there is none like it; give it me.

— 1 Samuel 21:11 —

12And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David the king of the land? Did not the dancing women begin the song to him, saying, Saul has smitten his thousands, And David his ten thousands?

13And David laid up the words in his heart, and was greatly afraid of Achish king of Gath.

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