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1 Samuel 21:4
“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.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 21
David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, 'Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.
Now therefore what is under your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
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.
David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, 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 today shall their vessels be holy?
So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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