1 Samuel 21:3

1 Samuel 21:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
• New International Version (NIV)Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
• New King James Version (NKJV)Now therefore, what have you on hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found.”
• New Living Translation (NLT)Now, what is there to eat? Give me five loaves of bread or anything else you have.”

Context of 1 Samuel 21:3

1Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?" 2And David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, 'Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.' I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here." 4And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women." 5And David answered the priest, "Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?"

1 Samuel 21:3 word by word

וְעַתָּ֗ה מַה־יֵּ֧שׁ תַּֽחַת־יָדְךָ֛ חֲמִשָּׁה־לֶ֖חֶם תְּנָ֣ה בְיָדִ֑י א֖וֹ הַנִּמְצָֽא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Now therefore what isיֵשׁyêsh · thereH3426
• under thine handיָדyâd · hand: ownerH3027
• giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• fiveחָמֵשׁchâmêsh chămishshâh · fiveH2568
• breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• or what there is presentמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672

Cross-references for 1 Samuel 21:3

• 1 Samuel 21:4And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women."
• Judges 9:29Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, 'Increase your army, and come out.'"
• Isaiah 3:6For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: "You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule";

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 21:3

• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-71Sa 21:1-7. David, at Nob, Obtains of Ahimelech Hallowed Bread. 1. Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech--Nob, a city of the priests (1Sa 22:19), was in the neighborhood of Jerusalem, on the Mount of Olives--a little north of the top, and on the northeast of the city. It is computed to have been about five miles distant from Gibeah. Ahimelech, the same as Ahiah, or perhaps his brother, both being sons of Ahitub (compare 1Sa 14:3, with 1Sa 22:4-11, 20). His…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Samuel 21:3

• Betrayal
• Confidence
• David
• Tabernacle

In the dictionaries

• Ahimelech
• Bread
• David
• Judges, Book of
• Manner
• Quotations
• Require
• Shewbread
• Abiathar
• Ezekiel

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary