1 Samuel 21:5-7

5 David answered the priest and said to him, "¹Surely * women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the ²vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much * more * then today will their vessels be holy?"

6 So ³the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the ⁴bread of the Presence which was removed from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

7 Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was ⁵Doeg the Edomite, the ⁶chief of Saul's shepherds.

1 Samuel 21:5-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 21

This chapter relates that David went to Nob, and pretending he was on secret business for the king, got shewbread, and the sword of Goliath, from Ahimelech the priest, 1Sa 21:1-9; and that passing from thence to Gath, where he was known, through fear feigned himself mad, and so escaped from thence, 1Sa 21:10-15.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 19:14, 15
• 2. 1 Thessalonians 4:4
• 3. Matthew 12:3, 4; Luke 6:3, 4
• 4. Leviticus 24:5-9
• 5. 1 Samuel 14:47; 1 Samuel 22:9; Ps 52: title
• 6. 1 Chronicles 27:29, 31

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "it" be holy "in the vessel"