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.

Bible References

Hallowed bread

1 Samuel 21:6
So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the show-bread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
Exodus 25:30
And thou shalt set upon the table show-bread before me always.
Leviticus 24:5
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth-parts shall be in one cake.
Matthew 12:3
But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

If the young

Exodus 19:15
And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
Zechariah 7:3
And to speak to the priests who were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your incontinence.