1 Samuel 21:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So now, if you have here five cakes of bread, give them into my hand, or whatever you have.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 9:29 : 29 If only I had authority over this people! I would put Abimelech out of the way, and I would say to Abimelech, Make your army strong, and come out.
  • 1 Sam 21:4 : 4 And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
  • Isa 3:6 : 6 When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

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  • 1 Sam 21:4-6
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    80%

    4 And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

    5 And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us; and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey; how much more today will their arms be made holy.

    6 So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.

  • 1 Sam 21:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?

    2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has given me orders and has said to me, Say nothing to anyone about the business on which I am sending you and the orders I have given you: and a certain place has been fixed to which the young men are to go.

  • 1 Sam 21:8-9
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    76%

    8 And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.

    9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you put to death in the valley of Elah, is here folded in a cloth at the back of the ephod: take that, if you will, for there is no other sword here. And David said, there is no other sword like that; give it to me.

  • 1 Sam 10:4
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    4 They will say, Peace be with you, and will give you two cakes of bread, which you are to take from them.

  • 1 Sam 17:17-18
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    74%

    17 And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

    18 And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.

  • 1 Sam 9:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 Then Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what are we to take the man? all our bread is gone, and we have no offering to take to the man of God: what are we to do?

    8 But the servant said in answer, I have here a fourth part of a shekel of silver: I will give that to the man of God, and he will give us directions about our way.

  • 1 Sam 25:8
    72%

    8 If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.

  • 1 Sam 22:10-13
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    71%

    10 And he got directions from the Lord for him, and gave him food, and put in his hand the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

    11 Then the king sent for Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and for all the men of his father's family who were priests in Nob: and they all came to the king.

    12 And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.

    13 And Saul said to him, Why have you made designs against me with the son of Jesse, giving him food and a sword and getting directions from the Lord for him, and helping him to take up arms against me, and to be on the watch to make a secret attack on me as he is doing now?

  • 1 Sam 25:11
    71%

    11 Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?

  • 1 Sam 28:22
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    22 So now, give ear to the voice of your servant, and let me give you a little bread; and take some food to give you strength when you go on your way.

  • Exod 29:23
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    23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

  • 2 Chr 2:15
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    15 So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

  • 1 Sam 25:27
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    27 And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.

  • Luke 6:3-4
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    3 And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

    4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • 1 Sam 9:23
    69%

    23 And Samuel said to the cook, Give me that part which I gave you orders to keep by you.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11
    69%

    11 And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread.

  • 1 Chr 21:23
    69%

    23 And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.

  • 1 Sam 26:18
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    18 And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?

  • Mark 2:25-26
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    25 And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?

    26 How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • 2 Sam 3:35
    68%

    35 And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!

  • Gen 18:5
    68%

    5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

  • Matt 12:3
    68%

    3 But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?

  • Judg 19:19
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    19 But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

  • John 6:9
    68%

    9 There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

  • 2 Sam 21:3
    68%

    3 So David said to the Gibeonites, What may I do for you? how am I to make up to you for your wrongs, so that you may give a blessing to the heritage of the Lord?

  • 1 Chr 21:10
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    10 Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.

  • Exod 25:30
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    30 And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

  • 1 Sam 30:7
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    7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Come here to me with the ephod. And Abiathar took the ephod to David.

  • 2 Sam 17:28-29
    2 verses
    67%

    28 Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

    29 And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

  • 2 Kgs 4:42-43
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    42 Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

    43 But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.

  • 1 Sam 22:15
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    15 Is this the first time I have got directions from God for him? Far be the thought! let the king make no such statement against his servant or my father's family, for your servant has no knowledge, great or small, of this thing.

  • Luke 9:13
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    13 But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

  • 2 Sam 24:12
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    12 Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, and I will do it to you.

  • 1 Sam 2:36
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    36 Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

  • Judg 8:6
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    6 But the chiefs of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand that we are to give bread to your army?

  • 1 Sam 30:23
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    23 Then David said, You are not to do this, my brothers, after what the Lord has given us, who has kept us safe and given up the band which came against us into our hands.

  • 1 Chr 16:3
    66%

    3 And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.