8Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
David’s statement that there was no time to get weapons contradicts his previous statement that there had been time for his men to purify themselves by abstinence.1 It is very unlikely that a seasoned soldier would leave on a military mission without being properly equipped.2
8 Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”