David and the Holy Bread
1 21:1 Ch 21:2 in Hebrew Then David came to ch. 22:9,11,19;Neh. 11:32;Isa. 10:32Nob, to [ch. 14:3;Mark 2:26] Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech [ch. 16:4]came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?" 2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. 3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here." 4 And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is Ex. 25:30;Lev. 24:5;Matt. 12:3,4;Mark 2:25,26;Luke 6:3,4holy bread—Ex. 19:15if the young men have kept themselves from women." 5 And David answered the priest, "Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?" 6 So the priest gave him [See ver. 4above] the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, Lev. 24:8,9which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.