BRAGADAYJAH 884

BRAGADAYJAH 884

David before Abimelech the Priest

David was not exactly open with Abimelech. After all he probably knew he was a cowardly and over cautious type and thought it prudent, while he needed his help not to be too forthright with him.  In any event David saw fear in him; so when he asked David his business he told him that he was on an urgent secret matter pertaining to King Saul, which was not really untrue. He was secretly running for his life from Saul, and the less he said about it the better. Then David asked Abimelech for bread, more particularly five loaves of bread or whatever was available.  And the priest answered David and said that he had no common bread; that is to say he had no ordinary bread, but the sacred bread which was meant only to be eaten in connection with the priestly office, and by young men who had kept themselves from women. And David verified that indeed there had been no women in their lives for the three days since they had been on the road, and therefore, the vessels of his young men are holy. So the priest gave him hallowed bread since there was no bread there, but the showbread that was taken from before the Lord to put hot bread on the day when it was taken away. This account here is one of the great passages of Scripture which eminently authenticates both the infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture as a whole, and the Authority of Christ, when he rebuked the Pharisees who dared to challenge His authority when he asked them, “Have you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him, how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest and did eat the showbread which is not lawful to eat but for the priest, and gave also to them that were with him?”  The story of David’s life was written during the 10^th century B.C. and is part of the Old Testament which many ignorantly dismiss as fairy tale. But during His life and ministry Jesus quoted it, thereby authenticating it. (Vide 1Sam. 21: 6 cf. Mark 2: 25-26)

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