Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

The shew-bread

Bible References

The shew-bread

Exodus 25:30
And you shall set upon the table showbread before me always.
Leviticus 24:5
And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two- tenth of an ephah shall be in one cake.

But

Exodus 29:32
And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
Leviticus 8:31
And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
Leviticus 24:9
And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, a perpetual statute.

General references

Exodus 25:30
And you shall set upon the table showbread before me always.
Exodus 40:23
And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Leviticus 24:8
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.