⁶ So ^(A)the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the ^(B)bread of the Presence which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

⁷ Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was ^(C)Doeg the Edomite, the ^(D)chief of Saul’s shepherds.

⁸ And David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not a spear or a sword ^[a]on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons in my hand because the king’s matter was urgent.”