1 Samuel 21:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Exod 19:15 : 15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.
  • Exod 25:30 : 30 And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.
  • Matt 12:3-4 : 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? 4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?
  • Lev 24:5-9 : 5 And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake. 6 And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord. 7 And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 8 Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever. 9 And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.
  • 1 Sam 21:6 : 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.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

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  • 1 Sam 21:5-6
    2 verses
    92%

    5And 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.

    6So 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 21:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Then 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?

    2And 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.

    3So now, if you have here five cakes of bread, give them into my hand, or whatever you have.

  • 2 Sam 3:35
    71%

    35And 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!

  • Lev 21:22
    70%

    22He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

  • Lev 21:6-8
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    70%

    6Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

    7They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

    8And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.

  • 1 Sam 10:4
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 21:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8And 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.

    9And 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.

  • Luke 6:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3And 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;

    4How 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?

  • Lev 22:12-14
    3 verses
    68%

    12And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.

    13But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so.

    14And if a man takes the holy food in error, he will have to give the holy thing back to the priest, with the addition of a fifth part.

  • 2 Sam 6:19
    68%

    19And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

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

    24And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;

    25And she put it before Saul and his servants, and they had a meal. Then they got up and went away the same night.

  • 1 Sam 17:17
    68%

    17And 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;

  • Exod 29:23
    68%

    23And 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:

  • Mark 2:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25And 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?

    26How 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?

  • Matt 12:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

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

    4How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

  • 1 Chr 16:3
    68%

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

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    67%

    29And 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.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    67%

    23Then 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.

  • Exod 29:2
    67%

    2And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

  • Hag 2:12
    67%

    12If anyone has some holy flesh folded in the skirt of his robe, will bread or soup or wine or oil or any other food be made holy if touched by his skirt? And the priests answering said, No.

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

    11Am 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?

    12So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.

    13And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    66%

    15And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked.

  • 1 Sam 28:22
    66%

    22So 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 29:34
    66%

    34And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is holy.

  • 1 Sam 22:14
    66%

    14Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    65%

    9Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.

  • Lev 22:25
    65%

    25And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.

  • 2 Sam 12:20
    65%

    20Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    65%

    3And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

  • 1 Sam 30:11
    65%

    11And in the fields they saw an Egyptian whom they took to David, and they gave him bread, and he had a meal, and they gave him water for drink;

  • Ezek 18:6
    65%

    6And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour's wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean;

  • Judg 19:19
    65%

    19But 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.

  • Lev 7:6
    65%

    6Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    65%

    24And the servants of Saul gave him an account of what David had said.

  • 1 Sam 14:24
    65%

    24And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.

  • 1 Sam 20:24
    65%

    24So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast.