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 a Himalayan, the priest, who is the great grandson of Eli, the priest

who raised Samuel.

A Himalayan 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 Himalayan 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, Doug the Edamite.

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