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Contemporary English Version

1 Samuel 21:3

Do you have any food you can give me? Could you spare five loaves of bread?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Betrayal;   Confidence;   David;   Tabernacle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Temptation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Tabernacle;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abiathar;   Bread;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - David;   Shiloh;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahimelech;   Bread;   Quotations;   Shewbread;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Matthew, the Gospel According to;   Nob;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abiathar;   Ahimelech;   Nob;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Nob;   Priests and Levites;   Shewbread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - David;   Shewbread (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahimelech ;   Nob;   Quotations;   Tabernacle, the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Shewbread;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abiathar;   Elhanan;   Ezekiel;   Samuel, Books of;   Tabernacle;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahimelech;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Doeg;   Nob;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever can be found.”
Hebrew Names Version
Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
King James Version
Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
Lexham English Bible
Now then, what do you have at hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever is here."
English Standard Version
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."
New Century Version
Now, what food do you have with you? Give me five loaves of bread or anything you find."
New English Translation
Now what do you have at your disposal? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found."
Amplified Bible
"Now what [food] do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found."
New American Standard Bible
"Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe therefore if thou hast ought vnder thine hande, giue me fiue cakes of bread, or what commeth to hand.
Legacy Standard Bible
So now, what do you have on hand? Give five loaves of bread into my hand, or whatever can be found."
Complete Jewish Bible
David said to Achimelekh the cohen, "The king has sent me on a mission and told me not to let anyone know its purpose or what I've been ordered to do. I've arranged a place where the guards are to meet me.
Darby Translation
And now what is under thy hand? give me five loaves in my hand, or what may be found.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now, what food do you have with you? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you have to eat."
George Lamsa Translation
Now therefore what provisions have you in your possession? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found.
Good News Translation
Now, then, what supplies do you have? Give me five loaves of bread or anything else you have."
Literal Translation
And now, what is there under your hand? Give five loaves into my hand, or whatever is found.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou haue now ought vnder thy hande, a loafe of bred or fyue, geue me the same in my hande, or what so euer thou findest.
American Standard Version
Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.
Bible in Basic English
So now, if you have here five cakes of bread, give them into my hand, or whatever you have.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe therfore if thou hast ought vnder thyne hand, geue me fyue loaues of bread, or what commeth to hande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest: 'The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me: Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and the young men have I appointed to such and such a place.
King James Version (1611)
Now therefore what is vnder thine hand? giue me fiue loaues of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now if there are under thy hand five loaves, give into my hand what is ready.
English Revised Version
Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or whatsoever there is present.
Berean Standard Bible
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
now therfor if thou hast ony thing at hond, ether fyue looues, yyue thou to me, ether what euer thing thou fyndist.
Young's Literal Translation
and now, what is there under thy hand? five loaves give into my hand, or that which is found.'
Update Bible Version
Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore what is under thy hand? give [me] five [loaves of] bread in my hand, or what there is present.
World English Bible
Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
New King James Version
Now therefore, what have you on hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found."
New Living Translation
Now, what is there to eat? Give me five loaves of bread or anything else you have."
New Life Bible
Now, what do you have ready? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you may have."
New Revised Standard
Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, what is there under thy hand? Five loaves, give thou into my hand, - or, whatever can be found.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.
Revised Standard Version
Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now therefore, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found."

Contextual Overview

1 David went to see Ahimelech, a priest who lived in the town of Nob. Ahimelech was trembling with fear as he came out to meet David. "Why are you alone?" Ahimelech asked. "Why isn't anyone else with you?" 2 "I'm on a mission for King Saul," David answered. "He ordered me not to tell anyone what the mission is all about, so I had my soldiers stay somewhere else. 3 Do you have any food you can give me? Could you spare five loaves of bread?" 4 "The only bread I have is the sacred bread," the priest told David. "You can have it if your soldiers didn't sleep with women last night." 5 "Of course we didn't sleep with women," David answered. "I never let my men do that when we're on a mission. They have to be acceptable to worship God even when we're on a regular mission, and today we're on a special mission." 6 The only bread the priest had was the sacred bread that he had taken from the place of worship after putting out the fresh loaves. So he gave it to David. 7 It so happened that one of Saul's officers was there, worshiping the Lord that day. His name was Doeg the Edomite, and he was the strongest of Saul's shepherds. 8 David asked Ahimelech, "Do you have a spear or a sword? I had to leave so quickly on this mission for the king that I didn't bring along my sword or any other weapons." 9 The priest answered, "The only sword here is the one that belonged to Goliath the Philistine. You were the one who killed him in Elah Valley, and so you can take his sword if you want to. It's wrapped in a cloth behind the statue." "It's the best sword there is," David said. "I'll take it!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

under thine: 1 Samuel 21:4, Judges 9:29, Isaiah 3:6

present: Heb. found

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:15 - Give us bread Judges 16:7 - If they bind Matthew 12:3 - what Mark 2:25 - what Luke 6:3 - what

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
But God answered: No! You and Sarah will have a son. His name will be Isaac, and I will make an everlasting promise to him and his descendants.
Genesis 21:6
and Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Now everyone will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:12
But God said, "Abraham, don't worry about your slave woman and the boy. Just do what Sarah tells you. Isaac will inherit your family name,
Genesis 22:2
The Lord said, "Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar."
Joshua 24:3
But I brought Abraham across the Euphrates River and led him through the land of Canaan. I blessed him by giving him Isaac, the first in a line of many descendants.
Matthew 1:2
From Abraham to King David, his ancestors were: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah and his brothers (Judah's sons were Perez and Zerah, and their mother was Tamar), Hezron; Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz (his mother was Rahab), Obed (his mother was Ruth), Jesse, and King David. From David to the time of the exile in Babylonia, the ancestors of Jesus were: David, Solomon (his mother had been Uriah's wife), Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram; Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, and Jehoiachin and his brothers.
Acts 7:8
God said to Abraham, "Every son in each family must be circumcised to show that you have kept your agreement with me." So when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him. Later, Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons.
Romans 9:7
In fact, when God made the promise to Abraham, he meant only Abraham's descendants by his son Isaac. God was talking only about Isaac when he promised

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore what is under thine hand?.... Meaning, what food had he in his house?

give [me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand; to take with him, for him and his servants in such a place:

or what there is present; or to be found g in the tabernacle; if not five loaves, two, or three, or four, or what food soever he had by him.

g הנמצא "quicquid inveneris", V. L, "inventum", Montanus; "quicquid inventum fuerit", Tigurine version.


 
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