8. One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds.
9. David then asked Ahimelech: “Do you have a spear or a sword on hand? I brought along neither my sword nor my weapons, because the king’s business was urgent.”
10. The priest replied: “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a garment behind an ephod. If you wish to take it, do so; there is no sword here except that one.” “There is none like it,” David cried, “give it to me!”
11. That same day David fled from Saul, going to Achish, king of Gath.
12. But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Is it not for him that during their dances they sing out,‘Saul has slain his thousands,David his tens of thousands’?”
13. David took note of these remarks and became very much afraid of Achish, king of Gath.
14. So, he feigned insanity in front of them and acted like a madman in their custody, drumming on the doors of the gate and drooling onto his beard.
15. Finally Achish said to his servants: “You see the man is mad. Why did you bring him to me?