38 Bible Verses about Bread

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John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Ezekiel 4:9

"As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side -- 390 days -- you will eat it.

Matthew 7:9

Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

1 Corinthians 11:27

For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

Luke 11:11

What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

Luke 11:5

Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Luke 9:16

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke them. He gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

John 6:31

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.

Joshua 9:12

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.

Ecclesiastes 11:1

Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

Matthew 15:26

"It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs," he said.

1 Corinthians 11:23

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

1 Kings 17:13

Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

Deuteronomy 8:3

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord's mouth.

Amos 8:11

Be certain of this, the time is coming," says the sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine through the land -- not a shortage of food or water but an end to divine revelation!

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Bread » Hallowed

Numbers 4:7

"On the table of the presence they must spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring, and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually.

Exodus 25:30

You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

Leviticus 24:5

"You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf,

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

1 Chronicles 9:32

Some of the Kohathites, their relatives, were in charge of preparing the bread that is displayed each Sabbath.

Bread » General references to

2 Kings 4:42

Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet -- twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. Elisha said, "Set it before the people so they may eat."

1 Samuel 16:20

So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat and sent them to Saul with his son David.

Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant's home. After that you may be on your way." "All right," they replied, "you may do as you say."

Bread » Baking of

1 Samuel 28:24

Now the woman had a well-fed calf at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."

Exodus 16:23

He said to them, "This is what the Lord has said: 'Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.'"

Leviticus 2:4

"'When you present an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must be made of choice wheat flour baked into unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil or unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

More verses: 1 Kings 19:6 Isaiah 44:15

Bread » How prepared » Kneaded

Hosea 7:4

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

1 Samuel 28:24

Now the woman had a well-fed calf at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."

Jeremiah 7:18

Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.

Bread » Breaking of

Matthew 14:19

Then he instructed the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds.

Acts 27:35

After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.

Luke 24:30

When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

Acts 20:11

Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

Bread » The principal food used by the ancients

Genesis 21:14

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant's home. After that you may be on your way." "All right," they replied, "you may do as you say."

Genesis 27:17

Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

Judges 19:5

On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. But the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Have a bite to eat for some energy, then you can go."

Bread » Often given as a present

1 Samuel 25:18

So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse."

1 Chronicles 12:40

Also their neighbors, from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, were bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. There were large supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine, olive oil, beef, and lamb, for Israel was celebrating.

Bread » Illustrative » (seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty

1 Samuel 2:36

Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, 'Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.'"

Bread » Sacrificed

1 Samuel 2:36

Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, 'Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.'"

Leviticus 21:6

"'They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord's gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

Leviticus 21:8

You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the Lord who sanctifies you all, am holy.

Leviticus 21:17

"Tell Aaron, 'No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.

Leviticus 21:21-22

No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the Lord's gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God. He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

Bread » How prepared » Made into loaves

1 Samuel 17:17

Jesse said to his son David, "Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly to the camp to your brothers.

1 Samuel 25:18

So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

1 Samuel 10:3

"As you continue on from there, you will come to the tall tree of Tabor. At that point three men who are going up to God at Bethel will meet you. One of them will be carrying three young goats, one of them will be carrying three round loaves of bread, and one of them will be carrying a container of wine.

1 Kings 14:3

Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."

Mark 8:14

Now they had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

Bread » How prepared » Baked in ovens

Hosea 7:4

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

Leviticus 2:4

"'When you present an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must be made of choice wheat flour baked into unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil or unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.

Leviticus 7:9

Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.

More verses: Leviticus 11:35

Bread » Staff of life

Ezekiel 14:13

"Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

Ezekiel 5:16

I will shoot against them deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will shoot to destroy you. I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

Bread » Kinds of » Leavened (made with yeast)

Hosea 7:4

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

Leviticus 7:13

He must present this grain offering in addition to ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly accompany the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering.

Leviticus 23:17

From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as first fruits to the Lord.

Amos 4:5

Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! For you love to do this, you Israelites." The sovereign Lord is speaking!

Matthew 13:33

He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen."

Bread » Often put for the whole sustenance of man

Genesis 39:6

So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.

Bread » Kinds of » Bread of affliction

Isaiah 30:20

The sovereign master will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.

1 Kings 22:27

Say, 'This is what the king says, "Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I safely return."'"

Hosea 9:4

They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the Lord.

Bread » Scarceness of, sent as a punishment

Ezekiel 5:16

I will shoot against them deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will shoot to destroy you. I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.

Psalm 105:16

He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.

Isaiah 3:1

Look, the sovereign Lord who commands armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah every source of security, including all the food and water,

Bread » Was kneaded

Hosea 7:4

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."

Jeremiah 7:18

Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.

Bread » Illustrative » (when broken,) of the death of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:23-24

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread, and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

Bread » Kinds of » Unleavened (made without yeast)

1 Samuel 28:24

Now the woman had a well-fed calf at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

Exodus 29:2

and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil -- you are to make them using fine wheat flour.

Genesis 19:3

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

Judges 6:19

Gideon went and prepared a young goat, along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

Bread » Multitudes miraculously fed by Christ with

Matthew 14:19-21

Then he instructed the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, twelve baskets full. Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.

Matthew 15:34-37

Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They replied, "Seven -- and a few small fish." After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground, he took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, who then gave them to the crowds. read more.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.

Bread » Made of wheat flour

1 Kings 5:11

and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors of wheat as provision for his royal court, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.

Exodus 29:2

and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil -- you are to make them using fine wheat flour.

1 Kings 4:22

Each day Solomon's royal court consumed thirty cors of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

Psalm 81:16

"I would feed Israel the best wheat, and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs."

Bread » Symbolical » Of the body of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:23-24

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread, and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

Bread » Sometimes unleavened

Exodus 12:18

In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

1 Corinthians 5:8

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Bread » Broken for use

Matthew 14:19

Then he instructed the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds.

Lamentations 4:4

(Dalet) The infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

Bread » Illustrative » (partaking of,) of communion of saints

Bread » Usually leavened

Leviticus 23:17

From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as first fruits to the Lord.

Matthew 13:33

He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen."

Bread » How prepared » On coals

1 Kings 19:6

He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more.

Isaiah 44:19

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: 'I burned half of it in the fire -- yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?'

John 21:9

When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread.

Bread » Figurative

Isaiah 55:2

Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

Bread » In times of scarcity, sold by weight

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

Bread » Was formed into » Cakes

2 Samuel 6:19

He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home.

1 Kings 17:13

Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

Bread » Was baked » In ovens

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Hosea 7:4-7

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking. At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers. They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire. read more.
All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall -- and none of them call on me!

Bread » Made by women

1 Samuel 8:13

He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Jeremiah 7:18

Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.

Bread » Sacred, called hallowed bread

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

1 Samuel 21:4

The priest replied to David, "I don't have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women."

Bread » Making of, a trade

Jeremiah 37:21

Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker's street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Genesis 40:2

Pharaoh was enraged with his two officials, the cupbearer and the baker,

Bread » Publicly sold

Matthew 14:15

When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, "This is an isolated place and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

Matthew 15:33

The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?"

Bread » Kept in baskets

Genesis 40:16

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

Exodus 29:32

Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Bread » Was formed into » Wafers

Exodus 16:31

The house of Israel called its name "manna." It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.

Exodus 29:23

and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord.

Bread » Illustrative » (want of,) of extreme poverty

Proverbs 12:9

Better is a person of humble standing who nevertheless has a servant, than one who pretends to be somebody important yet has no food.

Isaiah 3:7

At that time the brother will shout, 'I am no doctor, I have no food or coat in my house; don't make me a leader of the people!'"

Bread » Crumb of, used to wipe the fingers, thrown under the table

Luke 16:21

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man's table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

Matthew 15:27

"Yes, Lord," she replied, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."

Bread » Offered with sacrifices

Exodus 29:2

and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil -- you are to make them using fine wheat flour.

Exodus 29:23

and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord.

Bread » Made of » Wheat

Exodus 29:2

and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil -- you are to make them using fine wheat flour.

Psalm 81:16

"I would feed Israel the best wheat, and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs."

Bread » Was baked » On coals of fire

Isaiah 44:19

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: 'I burned half of it in the fire -- yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?'

John 21:9

When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread.

Bread » When old, dry and mouldy

Joshua 9:5

They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread was dry and hard.

Joshua 9:12

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.

Bread » Yielded by the earth

Job 28:5

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

Isaiah 55:10

The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

Bread » Given by God

Ruth 1:6

So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law, because while she was living in Moab she had heard that the Lord had shown concern for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.

Bread » Made of » Barley

Judges 7:13

When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. The man said, "Look! I had a dream. I saw a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed."

Bread » Called the staff of life

Ezekiel 14:13

"Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

Ezekiel 5:16

I will shoot against them deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will shoot to destroy you. I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

Bread » How prepared » In pans

Leviticus 2:5

If your offering is a grain offering made on the griddle, it must be choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil, unleavened.

Leviticus 2:7

If your offering is a grain offering made in a pan, it must be made of choice wheat flour deep fried in olive oil.

2 Samuel 13:6-9

So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came in to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can make a couple of cakes in my sight. Then I will eat from her hand." So David sent Tamar to the house saying, "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare some food for him." So Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, who was lying down. She took the dough, kneaded it, made some cakes while he watched, and baked them. read more.
But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said, "Get everyone out of here!" So everyone left.

Bread » How prepared » Cakes

1 Kings 17:12

She said, "As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation."

2 Samuel 6:19

He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home.

Bread » Traffic in

Jeremiah 37:21

Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker's street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Mark 6:37

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." And they said, "Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?"

Bread » First fruit of, offered to God

Numbers 15:19-20

and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the Lord. You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.

Bread » Served round after funerals

Ezekiel 24:17-22

Groan in silence for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others." So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning I acted just as I was commanded. Then the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?" read more.
So I said to them: "The word of the Lord came to me: Say to the house of Israel, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary -- the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life's passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword. Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

Bread » Was formed into » Loaves

1 Samuel 10:3-4

"As you continue on from there, you will come to the tall tree of Tabor. At that point three men who are going up to God at Bethel will meet you. One of them will be carrying three young goats, one of them will be carrying three round loaves of bread, and one of them will be carrying a container of wine. They will ask you how you're doing and will give you two loaves of bread. You will accept them.

Bread » Illustrative » (eating without scarceness,) of plenty

Deuteronomy 8:9

a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

Bread » How prepared » Wafers

Exodus 29:23

and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord.

Exodus 16:21

So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.

Bread » By idolaters

Jeremiah 7:18

Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.

Jeremiah 44:19

The women added, "We did indeed sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven. But it was with the full knowledge and approval of our husbands that we made cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her."

Bread » Illustrative » (of deceit,) of unlawful gain

Proverbs 20:17

Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Bread » Illustrative » (of idleness,) of sloth

Bread » Plenty of, promised to the obedient

Leviticus 26:5

Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.

Bread » Illustrative » (of wickedness,) of oppression

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

Bread » Illustrative » (fulness of,) of abundance

Bread » With water, the food of prisons

1 Kings 22:27

Say, 'This is what the king says, "Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I safely return."'"

Bread » Ordinary, called common bread

1 Samuel 21:4

The priest replied to David, "I don't have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women."

Bread » Illustrative » (of adversity,) of heavy affliction

Isaiah 30:20

The sovereign master will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.

Bread » Illustrative » Of Christ

John 6:33-35

For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." So they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time!" Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Bread » Was baked » On hearths

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."

Bread » Made of » Manna (in the wilderness)

Numbers 11:8

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

Bread » Placed on table of shew bread

Exodus 25:30

You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

Bread » Nutritious and strengthening

Bread » Troughs used for kneading

Exodus 12:34

So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.

Bread » Corn ground for making

Isaiah 28:28

Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one's wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.

Bread » How prepared » On coals of dung

Ezekiel 4:12

And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement."

Ezekiel 4:15

So he said to me, "All right then, I will substitute cow's manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it."

Bread » Figurative » Christ

John 6:32-35

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." So they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time!" read more.
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Bread » Made of » Beans, millet, &c

Ezekiel 4:9

"As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side -- 390 days -- you will eat it.

Bread » Illustrative » (of tears,) of sorrow

Psalm 80:5

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

Bread » How prepared » Mixed with oil

Exodus 29:2

and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil -- you are to make them using fine wheat flour.

Exodus 29:23

and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord.

Bread » Meal

1 Kings 17:12

She said, "As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation."

Bread » How prepared » Cracknels

1 Kings 14:3

Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."

Bread » How prepared » Honey

Exodus 16:31

The house of Israel called its name "manna." It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.

Bread » How prepared » On hearths

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."

Bread » Made by men

Genesis 40:2

Pharaoh was enraged with his two officials, the cupbearer and the baker,

Bread » Barley

Judges 7:13

When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. The man said, "Look! I had a dream. I saw a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed."

Bread » Manna

Numbers 11:8

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

the Diet of the jews » Articles used for » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

Jesse said to his son David, "Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly to the camp to your brothers.

Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant's home. After that you may be on your way." "All right," they replied, "you may do as you say."

Food » List of articles » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

Jesse said to his son David, "Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly to the camp to your brothers.

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."

Exodus 13:6

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.

John 6:7

Philip replied, "Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little."

Food » Articles of » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

Jesse said to his son David, "Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly to the camp to your brothers.

Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant's home. After that you may be on your way." "All right," they replied, "you may do as you say."

Symbols and similitudes » Bread

Mark 14:22

While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take it. This is my body."

Victuals » List of articles » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

Jesse said to his son David, "Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly to the camp to your brothers.

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."

Exodus 13:6

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.

John 6:7

Philip replied, "Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little."

Topics on Bread

Baking Bread

Exodus 12:39

They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast -- because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.

Bread, Figurative Of

Isaiah 30:20

The sovereign master will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.

Bread, Kinds Of

Exodus 12:39

They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast -- because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.

Consecrated Bread

Hebrews 9:2

For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

Feast Of Unleavened Bread

Exodus 12:15-20

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.

Unleavened Bread

Exodus 12:39

They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast -- because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.

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