1 Samuel 21:3

World English Bible (2000)

Now therefore what is under your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present."

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 9:29 : 29 Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech." He said to Abimelech, "Increase your army, and come out!"
  • 1 Sam 21:4 : 4 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."
  • Isa 3:6 : 6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand."

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  • 1 Sam 21:4-6
    3 verses
    80%

    4The 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."

    5David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, 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 today shall their vessels be holy?"

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

  • 1 Sam 21:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?"

    2David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, 'Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.'

  • 1 Sam 21:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

    9The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me."

  • 1 Sam 10:4
    74%

    4and they will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive of their hand.

  • 1 Sam 17:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Jesse said to David his son, "Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;

    18and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news."

  • 1 Sam 9:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7Then Saul said to his servant, "But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?"

    8The servant answered Saul again, and said, "Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way."

  • 1 Sam 25:8
    72%

    8Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'"

  • 1 Sam 22:10-13
    4 verses
    71%

    10He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

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

    12Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

    13Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

  • 1 Sam 25:11
    71%

    11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?"

  • 1 Sam 28:22
    71%

    22Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way."

  • Exod 29:23
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 2:15
    70%

    15"Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:

  • 1 Sam 25:27
    70%

    27Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

  • Luke 6:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"

  • 1 Sam 9:23
    69%

    23Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, 'Set it aside.'"

  • 1 Kgs 17:11
    69%

    11As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."

  • 1 Chr 21:23
    69%

    23Ornan said to David, "Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all."

  • 1 Sam 26:18
    68%

    18He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

  • Mark 2:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and those who were with him?

    26How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

  • 2 Sam 3:35
    68%

    35All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down."

  • Gen 18:5
    68%

    5I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

  • Matt 12:3
    68%

    3But he said to them, "Haven't you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

  • Judg 19:19
    68%

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

  • John 6:9
    68%

    9"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"

  • 2 Sam 21:3
    68%

    3and David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?"

  • 1 Chr 21:10
    68%

    10"Go and speak to David, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"

  • Exod 25:30
    67%

    30You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

  • 1 Sam 30:7
    67%

    7David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me here the ephod." Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

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

    28brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse],

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:42-43
    2 verses
    67%

    42A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."

    43His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" But he said, "Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, 'They will eat, and will have some left over.'"

  • 1 Sam 22:15
    67%

    15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more."

  • Luke 9:13
    67%

    13But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."

  • 2 Sam 24:12
    67%

    12"Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"

  • 1 Sam 2:36
    66%

    36It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

  • Judg 8:6
    66%

    6The princes of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?"

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    66%

    23Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Chr 16:3
    66%

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