1 Samuel 22:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

He inquired of the Lord ... - This was not true, but Ahimelech’s going to fetch the sword from behind the ephod might have given occasion to the belief on Doeg’s part that he had put on the ephod to inquire of the Lord for David.

1 Samuel 22:10

10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.