And David said to Ahimelech, And is there not here in your hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.
So the messengers that rode on mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, on business before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul.
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it: for there is no other here except that. And David said, There is none like that; give it to me.
And David said to Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father’s house.