1 Samuel 21:8

And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under your hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

6 So the priest gave him hallowed : for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Yahuah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul there that day, detained before the Yahuah; and his name Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that to Saul.

8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under your hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take : for no other save that here. And David said, none like that; give it me.

10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

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