1 Samuel 21:6

1 Samuel chapter 21 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

Context

v.5And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?

v.6This passage

v.7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Mark 2:25

    And he said unto them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?

  • Matthew 12:3

    But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

  • Leviticus 24:5

    And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.

  • Luke 6:3

    And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read even this, what David did, when he was hungry, he, and they that were with him;