1 Sam. 21:1-9
David came to Nob to the priest Ahimelech. Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and said to him, ‘Why are you alone, and no one with you?’ 2David said to the priest Ahimelech, ‘The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, “No one must 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. 3Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.’ 4The priest answered David, ‘I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.’ 5David answered the priest, ‘Indeed, 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 a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?’ 6So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there except 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 shepherds.
8 David said to Ahimelech, ‘Is there no spear or sword here with you? I did not bring my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.’ 9The priest said, ‘The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you will take that, take it, for there is none here except that one.’ David said, ‘There is none like it; give it to me.’
BLOG DISCUSSION QUESTION: Is David telling some white lies here? Is that ok?
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Guess we all need some explanation on these last few days' verses! I'm having trouble keeping David's activities all connected....
Nevertheless, I'm sure we have lots of readers, and hope that we all get back to doing more blogging, right?
The result of sin is enormous. Just one sin brought a curse on the world untill the end. God isn't looking the other direction, never the less He is going to accomplish His will with Davids sin.
These stories can get a bit mind twisting, but as near as I can tell, in this section, David has gone away from Saul for refuge for his life. He resorts to some white lies to keep him in Abimelech's good graces and get some food.
So....when are white lies ok? This is always a tough question. When something is awful and the person who is part of it asks for your opinion...one wonders if brutal honesty is a greater tresspass than a "kind" white lie.
Yet when one has wronged another, lying only compounds the wrong.
This is certain: God calls us to speak the truth about him. And with Pilate, we might ask, "what is truth?"
Certainly the core of the truth lies at the cross and empty tomb...."for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him might not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the son to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him."
That's the truth!
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