24 Bible Verses about Showbread

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Leviticus 24:8

Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

1 Chronicles 9:32

Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites were over the showbread to prepare it every sabbath.

Leviticus 24:7-8

You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the Lord. Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

Leviticus 24:9

It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the Lord’s offerings by fire, his portion forever.”

Matthew 12:4-5

how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?

Exodus 26:35

You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

Hebrews 9:2

For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.

Exodus 25:23-28

“You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high. You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it. You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.read more.
You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet. The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table. You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.

Numbers 4:7-8

Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificial bowls and the jars for the drink offering, and the continual bread shall be on it. They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.

Numbers 4:16

“The responsibility of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light and the fragrant incense and the continual grain offering and the anointing oil—the responsibility of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”

Exodus 28:10-12

six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth. As a jeweler engraves a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel; you shall set them in filigree settings of gold. You shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial.

Exodus 25:30

You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

Leviticus 24:5

“Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

1 Samuel 21:4

The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Nehemiah 10:32-33

We also placed ourselves under obligation to contribute yearly one third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: for the showbread, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moon, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

1 Chronicles 23:29

and with the showbread, and the fine flour for a grain offering, and unleavened wafers, or what is baked in the pan or what is well-mixed, and all measures of volume and size.

Exodus 40:23

He set the arrangement of bread in order on it before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 24:6

You shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.

Leviticus 24:7

You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the Lord.

1 Samuel 21:4-6

The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.” David answered the priest and said to him, “Surely women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today will their vessels be holy?” So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from before the Lord, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

Matthew 12:4

how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?

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Showbread » Placed in two rows on the table by the priests

Exodus 25:30

You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

Exodus 40:23

He set the arrangement of bread in order on it before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 24:6

You shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.

Showbread » Illustrative of » The church

Showbread » Prepared by levites

1 Chronicles 9:32

Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites were over the showbread to prepare it every sabbath.

1 Chronicles 23:29

and with the showbread, and the fine flour for a grain offering, and unleavened wafers, or what is baked in the pan or what is well-mixed, and all measures of volume and size.

Showbread » Materials for, provided by the people

Leviticus 24:8

Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

Nehemiah 10:32-33

We also placed ourselves under obligation to contribute yearly one third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: for the showbread, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moon, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

Showbread » Not lawful for any but the priests to eat, except in extreme cases

Matthew 12:4

how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?

1 Samuel 21:4-6

The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." David answered the priest and said to him, "Surely women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today will their vessels be holy?" So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

Showbread » Table of » Placed in the north side of the tabernacle

Hebrews 9:2

For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.

Exodus 40:22

Then he put the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

Showbread » Table of » Had rings of gold in the corners for the staves

Exodus 25:26-27

"You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet. "The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

Showbread » After removal from the table given to the priests

Leviticus 24:9

It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the Lord’s offerings by fire, his portion forever.”

Showbread » Was changed every sabbath day

Leviticus 24:8

Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

Showbread » Pure frankincense placed on

Leviticus 24:7

You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the Lord.

Showbread » Twelve cakes of fine flour

Leviticus 24:5

Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

Showbread » Called hallowed bread

1 Samuel 21:4

The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Showbread » Table of » Had dishes, spoons, covers, and bowls of gold

Exodus 25:29

You shall make its dishes and its pans and its jars and its bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

Showbread » Table of » Had staves of shittim wood covered with gold

Exodus 25:28

You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.

Showbread » Table of » Had an ornamental border

Exodus 25:25

You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

Showbread » Table of » Dimensions, &c of

Exodus 25:23

You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.

Showbread » Table of » Covered with gold

Exodus 25:24

You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.

Showbread » Table of » Directions for removing

Numbers 4:7

Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificial bowls and the jars for the drink offering, and the continual bread shall be on it.

Showbread » Illustrative of » Christ, as the bread of life

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