1 Samuel 23:9
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Now when David understood that Saul secretly prepared evil against him, he said to Abiathar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod.

Context
Saul Pursues David
8And Saul commanded all the people to go down to fight against Ceila, and to besiege David and his men. 9Now when David understood that Saul secretly prepared evil against him, he said to Abiathar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod.10And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a report, that Saul designeth to come to Ceila, to destroy the city for my sake:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:18
And Saul said to Achias: Bring the ark of the Lord. (For the ark of God was there that day with the children of Israel.)

1 Samuel 22:20
But one of the sons of Achimelech, the son of Achitob, whose name was Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David,

1 Samuel 23:6
Now at that time, when Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, fled to David, to Ceila, he came down, having an ephod with him.

1 Samuel 23:8
And Saul commanded all the people to go down to fight against Ceila, and to besiege David and his men.

1 Samuel 23:10
And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a report, that Saul designeth to come to Ceila, to destroy the city for my sake:

1 Samuel 30:7
And he said to Abiathar, the priest, the son of Achimelech: Bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

1 Kings 2:26
And the king said also to Abiathar, the priest: Go to Anathoth, to thy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst carry the ark of the Lord God before David, my father, and hast endured trouble in all the troubles my father endured.

Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

Lexicon
When David
דָּוִ֔ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

learned
וַיֵּ֣דַע (way·yê·ḏa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

that
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

Saul
שָׁא֖וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

was plotting
מַחֲרִ֣ישׁ (ma·ḥă·rîš)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

evil
הָרָעָ֑ה (hā·rā·‘āh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil

against him,
עָלָ֔יו (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

he said
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

Abiathar
אֶבְיָתָ֣ר (’eḇ·yā·ṯār)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 54: Abiathar -- 'the great one is father', an Israelite priest

the priest,
הַכֹּהֵ֔ן (hak·kō·hên)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest

“Bring
הַגִּ֖ישָׁה (hag·gî·šāh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5066: To draw near, approach

the ephod.”
הָאֵפֽוֹד׃ (hā·’ê·p̄ō·wḏ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 646: A girdle, the ephod, highpriest's shoulder-piece, an image


Additional Translations
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.

And David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.

And David knew that Saul spoke openly of mischief against him: and David said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod of the Lord.

And when David knew that Saul devised mischief against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod.

And David knew that Saul devised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.

And David knew that Saul secretly plotted mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."

And David knoweth that against him Saul is devising the evil, and saith unto Abiathar the priest, 'Bring nigh the ephod.'
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