THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 21:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?
וְעַתָּ֗ה מַה־יֵּ֧שׁ תַּֽחַת־יָדְךָ֛ חֲמִשָּׁה־לֶ֖חֶם תְּנָ֣ה בְיָדִ֑י א֖וֹ הַנִּמְצָֽא׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 19:15He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.
- Matt 12:3But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him:
- Matt 12:4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?
- Ex 25:30And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.
- Lev 24:5Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.
- Lev 24:9And they shall be Aaron's and his sons', that they may eat them in the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.
- 1 Cor 7:5Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.
- 1 Sam 21:6The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.