Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
there was no bread there—in the tabernacle. The removal of the old and the substitution of the new bread was done on the Sabbath (Leviticus 24:8), the loaves being kept warm in an oven heated the previous day.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Samuel 21:6:
Leviticus 24:5-9
1 Samuel 21:1
Psalms 52:1
Matthew 12:3
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