1 Samuel 21:4

American Standard Version (1901)

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

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  • Exod 19:15 : 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.
  • Exod 25:30 : 30 And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before me alway.
  • Matt 12:3-4 : 3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him; 4 how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?
  • Lev 24:5-9 : 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts [of an ephah] shall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah. 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. 8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. 9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute.
  • 1 Sam 21:6 : 6 So the priest gave him holy [bread] ; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 [ and] to speak unto the priests of the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

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  • 1 Sam 21:5-6
    2 verses
    92%

    5And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?

    6So the priest gave him holy [bread] ; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • 1 Sam 21:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

    2And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know anything of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.

    3Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.

  • 2 Sam 3:35
    71%

    35And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David sware, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.

  • Lev 21:22
    70%

    22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

  • Lev 21:6-8
    3 verses
    70%

    6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

    7They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

    8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I Jehovah, who sanctify you, am holy.

  • 1 Sam 10:4
    69%

    4and they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread, which thou shalt receive of their hand.

  • 1 Sam 21:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

    9And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.

  • Luke 6:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read even this, what David did, when he was hungry, he, and they that were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests alone?

  • Lev 22:12-14
    3 verses
    68%

    12And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

    13But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

    14And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing.

  • 2 Sam 6:19
    68%

    19And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed every one to his house.

  • 1 Sam 28:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:

    25and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.

  • 1 Sam 17:17
    68%

    17And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to thy brethren;

  • Exod 29:23
    68%

    23and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Jehovah:

  • Mark 2:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25And he said unto them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?

    26How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?

  • Matt 12:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?

  • 1 Chr 16:3
    68%

    3And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    67%

    29and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    67%

    23Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which Jehovah hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • Exod 29:2
    67%

    2and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

  • Hag 2:12
    67%

    12If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

  • 1 Sam 25:11-13
    3 verses
    66%

    11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I know not whence they are?

    12So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

    13And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    66%

    15Yea, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of thee, but raw.

  • 1 Sam 28:22
    66%

    22Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

  • Exod 29:34
    66%

    34And if aught of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

  • 1 Sam 22:14
    66%

    14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house?

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    65%

    9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.

  • Lev 22:25
    65%

    25Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • 2 Sam 12:20
    65%

    20Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel; and he came into the house of Jehovah, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    65%

    3And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

  • 1 Sam 30:11
    65%

    11And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink.

  • Ezek 18:6
    65%

    6and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor's wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity,

  • Judg 19:19
    65%

    19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man that is with thy servants: there is no want of anything.

  • Lev 7:6
    65%

    6Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    65%

    24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.

  • 1 Sam 14:24
    65%

    24And the men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted food.

  • 1 Sam 20:24
    65%

    24So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.