1 Samuel 21:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

1 Samuel 21:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:
Judges 9:29
And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.
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.

Topics

David Generals, Distinguished Israel Promotion Young Men

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Here, I. David, in distress, flies in the tabernacle of God, now pitched at Nob, supposed to be a city in the tribe of Benjamin. Since Shiloh was forsaken, the tabernacle was often removed, though the ark still remained at Kirjath-jearim. Hither David came in his flight from Saul’s fury (1 Sam. 21:1), and applied to Ahimelech the priest. Samuel the prophet could not protect him, Jonathan the princ…