1 Samuel 21:4

Modern English Version

The priest answered David and said, “There is no common bread at hand. But there is holy bread, if the young men have indeed been kept from women.”

Cross References

Exodus 19:15

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.”

Exodus 25:30

You shall set the showbread on the table before Me always.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman, and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.

Zechariah 7:3

saying to the priests and prophets of the house of the Lord of Hosts, “Should I weep and dedicate myself during the fifth month as I have done in these many years?”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you for lack of self-control.

1 Samuel 21:3

Now therefore what is in your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found.”

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him holy bread. For there was no bread there but the showbread that was removed from before the Lord, in order to place hot bread there on the day when it was taken away.