Soak Bible
Navigate

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

Linguistic Insight

of 7

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Commentary

Matthew Henry

(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...

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.