Do you have any food you can give me? Could you spare five loaves of bread?”
Some of you will grab hold of a relative and say, “You still have a coat. Be our leader and rule this pile of ruins.”
If I were the ruler of Shechem, I'd get rid of that Abimelech. I'd tell him, “Get yourself an even bigger army, and we will still defeat you.”
“I'm on a mission for King Saul,” David answered. “He ordered me not to tell anyone what the mission is all about, so I told my soldiers to stay somewhere else.
“The only bread I have is the sacred bread,” the priest told David. “You can have it if your soldiers didn't sleep with women last night.”