Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Yesterday David fled from Saul with the help of Jonathan and now David is a fugitive.

Today we recount a lot of his travels as a man on the Lamb.

His first stop is in a place called Knob, which was a

religious headquarters at the time because he needs supplies, food and weapons.

David runs into ahemolek, the priest, who is the great-grandson of Eli, the priest who raised Samuel.

Ahemolek seems suspicious but doesn't ask a lot of questions except for why David is

alone, and David lies to him. The first thing we need to address here is that David lies to protect his own life.

This is less like Rahab's lie to protect the spies and more like Abraham's lie that Sarah was

his sister.

When David lies like this, it suggests he doesn't believe God's promise to make him king.

And his lie leads to the slaughter of many innocent people and priests.

The second thing we need to address is that the

holy bread is only supposed to be eaten by the priest. We see a hemelac make a

concession here, people over process. And it's hard to know how to feel about this at the time. However,

Jesus refers to this rule bending in Matthew 12 as a reminder that inherent in the law

is the spirit of the law, which is that God values mercy over law.

While all this is happening, there's another man there who's probably a prisoner of

war, dug the Edomite.

Saul had defeated the Edomites.

You may recall that they're the descendants of

Esau. They were Israel's closest relatives but also one of their biggest enemies.

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