David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then today shall their vessels be holy?
      III. David, under pretence of being sent by Saul upon public services, solicits Ahimelech to supply his present wants, 1 Samuel 21:2; 1 Samuel 21:3.