Nave’s Topical Bible
Shewbread (Showbread)
25 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- (Also called THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE)
- Called HALLOWED BREAD
- Ordinance concerning
- Required to be kept before the Lord continually
- Provided by a yearly per capita tax
- Prepared by the Levites
- "Unlawfully" eaten by David
- Placed on the Table of Shewbread (see TABLE OF, below.)
- TABLE OF
- Ordinances concerning
- Its position in the tabernacle
- Furniture of
- Consecration of
- How removed
- For the temple
Bible verses about “Shewbread (Showbread)”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Hebrews 9:2For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
- 1 Samuel 21:6So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
- Leviticus 24:5And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
- Leviticus 24:6And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.
- Leviticus 24:7And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
- Leviticus 24:8Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
- Leviticus 24:9And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.
- Exodus 25:30And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
- 2 Chronicles 2:4Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
- Nehemiah 10:32Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
- Nehemiah 10:33For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:32And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
- 1 Chronicles 23:29Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
- Matthew 12:3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
- Matthew 12:4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
- Mark 2:25And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
- Mark 2:26How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
- Luke 6:3And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
- Luke 6:4How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
- Exodus 40:22And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
- Exodus 40:23And he set the bread in order upon it before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
- Exodus 25:23Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- Exodus 25:24And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
- Exodus 25:25And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
- Exodus 25:26And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
- Exodus 25:27Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
- Exodus 25:28And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
- Exodus 37:10And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
- Exodus 37:11And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
- Exodus 37:12Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
- Exodus 37:13And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
- Exodus 37:14Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
- Exodus 37:15And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
- Exodus 26:35And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
- Exodus 25:29And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 37:16And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
- Numbers 4:7And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
- Exodus 30:26And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
- Exodus 30:27And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
- Exodus 30:29And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.