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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."
• 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

1David 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?” 2David 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. Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.” 4But 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.” 5David 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!”

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 21:4But 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.”
• Judges 9:29If only this people were under my command! Then I would get rid of him. I would say to Abimelek, ‘Call out your whole army!’ ”
• Isaiah 3:6A man will seize one of his brothers in his father’s house, and say, “You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!”

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