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I Księga Samuela 21:2

I odpowiedział Dawid Achimelechowi kapłanowi: Rozkazał mi król niektóre rzeczy tak mówiąc do mnie: Żaden o tym niechaj nie wie, po co cię posyłam a co ciem poruczył. A przetożem moim sługam naznaczył miejsce niektóre.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Betrayal;   Confidence;   David;   Tabernacle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Deception;   Temptation;   Truth-Falsehood;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lying;   Tabernacle;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abiathar;   Bread;   Nob;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - David;   Shiloh;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lie, Lying;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahimelech;   Bread;   Quotations;   Shewbread;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Matthew, the Gospel According to;   Nob;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abiathar;   Ahimelech;   High Priest;   Nob;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Nob;   Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Shewbread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - David;   Shewbread (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahimelech ;   Nob;   Quotations;   Tabernacle, the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahimelech;   David;   Shewbread;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abiathar;   Ahimelech;   Business;   Elhanan;   Ezekiel;   Lie;   Priest, High;   Samuel, Books of;   Tabernacle;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahimelech;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Doeg;   Nob;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
I odpowiedzał Dawid Achimelechowi kapłanowi: Rozkazał mi król nieco, i rzekł do mnie: Niech nikt nie wie tego, po co cię posyłam, i com ci zlecił, przetożem sługi zostawił na pewnem miejscu.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
(21:3) Król zlecił mi pewną sprawę - odpowiedział Dawid. - Przestrzegł mnie: Niech nikt się nie dowie, z czym cię wysyłam ani co ci zleciłem. Wojowników też zebrałem w pewnym ustronnym miejscu.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Zaś Dawid przybył do Nob, do kapłana Achimeleka. Więc Achimelek pokornie wyszedł na spotkanie Dawida i do niego powiedział: Czemu przybywasz sam i nikogo przy tobie nie ma?
Biblia Tysiąclecia
I odpowiedzał Dawid Achimelechowi kapłanowi: Rozkazał mi król nieco, i rzekł do mnie: Niech nikt nie wie tego, po co cię posyłam, i com ci zlecił, przetożem sługi zostawił na pewnem miejscu.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Dawid odpowiedział kapłanowi Achimelekowi: Król zlecił mi pewną sprawę, nakazując: Niech nikt nie wie o tej sprawie, z którą cię wysyłam i którą ci zleciłem. Z tego powodu umówiłem się ze swoimi sługami w pewnym miejscu.
Biblia Warszawska
I przyszedł Dawid do Nob, do kapłana Achimeleka, a Achimelek wystraszony wyszedł naprzeciw Dawida i rzekł do niego: Dlaczego jesteś sam, a nikogo nie ma z tobą?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The king: The whole of this is a gross falsehood; and which was attended with the most fatal consequences. It is well known that from all antiquity it was held no crime to tell a lie in order to save life. Thus Diphilon נןכבלגבםש פן רוץהבע וני ףשפחסיב כודןלוםןם, ןץהום נוסינןיויףטבי הץףקוסוע. "I hold it right to tell a lie for safety: nothing should be avoided to save life." A heathen may say or sing thus, but no Christian can act thus and save his soul, though he may save his life. 1 Samuel 19:17, 1 Samuel 22:22, Genesis 27:20, Genesis 27:24, 1 Kings 13:18, Psalms 119:29, Galatians 2:12, Colossians 3:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:19 - General Judges 16:7 - If they bind 1 Samuel 22:14 - goeth 1 Samuel 27:10 - And David 2 Samuel 17:20 - They be gone

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David said unto Ahimelech the priest,.... In reply to his question, and to account for such an appearance he made without an equipage:

the king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, let no man know anything of the business thereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; he pretended he was upon a secret expedition, by the order of Saul, which none were to know of, no, not his own servants, and that was the reason why he came to him alone; which was a downright lie, and was aggravated by its being told only for the sake of getting a little food; and especially told to an high priest, and at the tabernacle of God, and when he was come to inquire of the Lord there; and was attended with a dreadful consequence, the slaughter of the Lord's priests there, which afterwards lay heavy on David's mind, 1 Samuel 22:22; and is the very sin he is thought to refer to in

Psalms 119:28. This shows the weakness of the best of men, when left to themselves; David who as much hated lying as any man did, fell into it himself:

and I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place; to such a place, of such an one, not naming place nor person, that they might not be known; so the Targum calls it a place hidden and kept; and that David had some servants, though not now with him, who ate of the shewbread, appears from Matthew 12:3; whom Jonathan might send after him, to a place agreed on and appointed between them; so that this might be true.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A fresh instance of David’s unscrupulous readiness of invention (compare 1 Samuel 20:6).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 21:2. The king hath commanded me a business — All said here is an untruth, and could not be dictated by the Spirit of the Lord; but there is no reason to believe that David was under the influence of Divine inspiration at this time. It is well known that from all antiquity it was held no crime to tell a lie, in order to save life. Thus Diphilus: -

Ὑπολαμβανω το ψευδος επι σωτηριᾳ

Λεγομενον, ουδεν περιποιεισθαι δυσχερες.


"I hold it right to tell a lie, in order to procure my personal safety; nothing should be avoided in order to save life."

A heathen may say or sing thus; but no Christian can act thus, and save his soul, though he by doing so may save his life.


 
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