So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the LORD, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword?
For I haven’t brought my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”