1 Samuel 21:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Hallowed bread

If the young

Exodus 19:15

Zechariah 7:3

1 Corinthians 7:5

Bible References

Hallowed bread

So the priest gave him [the] holy [bread], for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to set hot bread [there] on the day when it was taken away.

And you will put on the table [the] bread of presence [to be] before me continually.

"And you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake [with] it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one [shall be] two-tenths [of an ephah].

So he said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him,

If the young

And he said to the people, "Be ready {for the third day}. Do not go near to a woman."

saying to the {priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts} and to the prophets, "Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate as I have done for these many years?"

Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and [then] you should be {together} again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.