6So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
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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; …
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; …
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. …
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? …
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…
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