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David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’
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Verse 2. The king, and so forth This was an untruth, which David, like many other great men, might think lawful in such an emergency. But it is essentially evil. Calmet.—And such, which he deems it unnecessary to specify. Septuagint retains the Hebrew words, “Phelanni almoni.” See Ruth 4:1.
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