1 Samuel 21:6
“So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.”
And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.
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Cross-References
“And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;”
“And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?”
“But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;”
“And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.”
“And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.”