1 Samuel 21:4

“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.”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations for 1 Samuel 21:4

And the Priest answered Dauid, and said, There is no common bread vnder mine hand, but there is hallowed bread: if the young men haue kept themselues at least from women.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

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."
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
- American Standard Version (1901)

And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
- Basic English Bible

"There is no common bread on hand," the priest replied, "but there is some consecrated bread-provided that the young men have kept themselves from women."
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
- Darby Bible

And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?
- Douay-Rheims Bible

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
- English Revised Version

The priest answered David, and said, "There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women."
- World English Bible

Bible Commentary for 1 Samuel 21:4

Wesley's Notes for 1 Samuel 21:4


21:4 There is, &c. - Here in the tabernacle: though doubtless he had other provisions is his house; but David was in great haste, and in fear of Doeg whom he saw, and knew and therefore would not stay 'till any thing could be fetched thence. There was a double impediment to the giving this bread to them; Its sacredness in itself; which the priest implies, and David answers ver.#5|, and the priest was satisfied therein by David's great necessities. The abstinence from all women, which he supposed should be in those that use it; concerning which he now enquires. And though he mentions this only concerning David's young men, and out of reverence forbears to name him; yet he is also included in the number, as David's answer shews.


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