Nob, Israel

[1] The town is situated in the southern portion of the land associated with the tribe of Benjamin, and is identified within the village of Shuafat, to the north of Jerusalem.

This reading of the text follows that since Nob was a city of priests, it would be an unlikely place for David to seek food and weapons in his flight from Saul.

For this reason, some commentaries note that David eats the showbread, which is more sacred than the priestly food but is not terumah.

[1] Aside from the incident in the Book of Samuel, the town of Nob is mentioned in the Bible in connection with the Neo-Assyrian attack on Israel described in Isaiah 10:32 and concerning the Jewish settlements after the Babylonian captivity listed in Nehemiah 11:33.

[2] In the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum known as Pseudo-Philo, a first-century work, the town of Nob is identified as the actual location for the biblical incident of the Levite's concubine, which takes place in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.