1 Samuel 21:3

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

1 Samuel 21:3 in Other Translations

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

3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."

3 Now, what is there to eat? Give me five loaves of bread or anything else you have.”

3 Now, what's there here to eat? Do you have five loaves of bread? Give me whatever you can scrounge up!"

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

3 [David added,] "Now, what do you have [to eat]? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you can find."

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

3 Do you have anything for us to eat? Give me five loaves of bread, or anything else you can find."

1 Samuel 21:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 21:3

Now therefore what is under thine hand?
&c.] Meaning, what food had he in his house?

give [me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand;
to take with him, for him and his servants in such a place:

or what there is present;
or to be found ^F7 in the tabernacle; if not five loaves, two, or three, or four, or what food soever he had by him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (aumnh) "quicquid inveneris", V. L, "inventum", Montanus; "quicquid inventum fuerit", Tigurine version.

1 Samuel 21:3 In-Context

1 David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

2 David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.

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

4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”

5 David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men’s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”