[Ahimaaz Smith]

Thank you, Brother V, for another excellent exegesis of God’s Word. I have some thoughts on how a few verses from this section of Samuel can be misconstrued by those who are less learned than you and Pastor Zeke:

David... fell on his face to the ground... and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded. 1 Samuel 20:41

Lying face down, kissing, and weeping together were common and innocent practices amond men in the Middle East at the time, so nobody should mistake this verse as evidence that David and Jonathan were participating in any kind of faggotry.

Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?... And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy…. 1 Samuel 21:1-4

And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him? Mark 2:25-26

There has been endless confusion among the unsaved as to the name of the priest who fed David and whether David traveled alone. The first is easy to dispense with, Ahimelech was clearly a junior priest who merely worked for Abiathar the high priest. As for David’s companions, I believe he probably fell in with a wandering band of nigras to escape the notice of Saul's spies, not reaching the city of Nob until after dark. Ahimelech did not see the nigras until David drew the priest's attention to them. Or perhaps Ahimelech merely pretended not to see David's companions because he didn't want to spend the money to feed them all--he was a Jewboy, after all.

BTW, a quick note to any Cathylick priests or other homers out there: the verse says "the vessels of the young men are holy," not "the holes of the young men are vessels."