1 Samuel 21:3

Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”

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In The King James Version

Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

In Context

2David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’

4The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 21:4The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 21:2-10

David Obtains the Show-Bread; David Gets the Sword of Goliath. ( b. c. 1057.) 1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? 2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. 3 Now therefore… Read the whole commentary →

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