1 Samuel 21:3 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 21:3

Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

KJV

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ASV

Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.

WEB

Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”

YLT

and now, what is there under thy hand? five loaves give into my hand, or that which is found.'

DBT

And now what is under thy hand? give me five loaves in my hand, or what may be found.

About this book

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Luke 6:3
And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
Matthew 12:3
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Mark 2:25
And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
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.
Isaiah 3:6
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

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People should be free with their faithful ministers. David was a man of great faith and courage, and yet now both failed him, and he fell thus foully through fear and cowardice, and both owing to the weakness of his faith. Had he trusted God aright, he would not have used such a sorry sinful shift as this for his own preservation.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Travelling was then troublesome, when men generally carried their provisions with them in kind, having little money and no public houses, else David would not now have had to seek for bread. It seems David had known the seed of the righteous begging bread occasionally, but not constantly, Ps. xxxvii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), though they had no more in the house; but he trusted Providence. Persons of quality, though officers of the army, did not then wear their swords so constantly as now they do, else surely David would not have been without one. It was a wonder that Jonathan did not furnish him with his, as he had before done, ch. xviii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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