1 Samuel 21:2

David and the Holy Bread

1 Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And ^aAhimelech was ^bafraid when he met David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?”

2 So David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has ordered me on some business, and said to me, ‘Do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you, or what I have commanded you.’ And I have directed my young men to such and such a place.

3 Now therefore, what have you on hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found.”

4 And the priest answered David and said, “There is no¹ common bread on hand; but there is ^aholy bread, ^bif the young men have at least kept themselves from women.”

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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1 Samuel 21:2

A fresh instance of David' s unscrupulous readiness of invention (compare I Samuel 20:6).

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 21:2:

Exodus 40:34-35
Ruth 4:1
1 Samuel 27:5
1 Chronicles 16:4-42
Psalms 34:4
Psalms 56:6
Psalms 78:60
Isaiah 10:32
Daniel 8:13
Matthew 12:3

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