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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Samuel 21:3

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.

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."
Contemporary English Version
Do you have any food you can give me? Could you spare five loaves of bread?"
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.
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 Dauid came to Nobe to ye prest Ahimelech. And Ahimelech was astonnyed, whan he sawe Dauid comminge, and sayde vnto him: Why commest thou alone, and noman is with the? 2 Dauid sayde vnto Ahimelech the prest: The kinge hath comytted a matter vnto me, and sayde: Let noma knowe wherfore I haue sent the, and what I haue commaunded the: for I haue appoynted my seruautes to mete me here & there. 3 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. 4 The prest answered Dauid, and sayde: I haue no comen bred vnder my hande, but the holy bred, yf the yonge men haue onely refrained them selues from wemen. 5 Dauid answered the prest, and sayde vnto him: The wemen were kepte thre dayes from vs whan we departed forth, and the yonge mens vessels were holy. But this waye is vnholy, neuerthelesse it shalbe santifyed to daye in the instrumentes. 6 Then the prest gaue him of ye holy, in so moch as there was none other bred but the shewbredes, which were taken vp before the LORDE, that there might be other freshbredes set therin the daye wha he toke them awaye. 7 But the same daye was there a man sparred in before the LORDE, one of Sauls seruauntes, named Doeg an Edomite, ye mightiest amonge Sauls hyrdmen. 8 And Dauid sayde vnto Ahimelech: Is there not a speare or a swerde here vnder thine hande? I haue not taken my swerde and weapens with me: for the kynges matter requyred haist. 9 The prest sayde: The swerde of Goliath the Philistyne whom thou smotest in the Oke valley, is here wrapped in a cloth behynde the ouerbody cote. Yf thou wylt haue it, take it, for here is els none but it. Dauid sayde: There is not soch another, geue me 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
Then sayde God: Yee euen Sara thy wyfe shall beare the a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: for with him wil I make my euerlastinge couenaunt, and with his sede after him.
Genesis 21:6
And Sara sayde: God hath prepared a ioye for me, for who so euer heareth of it, wyll reioyse with me.
Genesis 21:12
Neuertheles God sayde vnto him: let it not displease the because of the childe and the hand mayde: What so euer Sara hath sayde vnto the, folowe it, for in Isaac shall the sede be called vnto the.
Genesis 22:2
And he sayde: Take ye sonne, this onely sonne of thine, eue Isaac whom thou louest, and go thy waye in to the londe of Moria, & offre him there for a burntofferynge, vpon a mountayne that I shal shew the.
Joshua 24:3
Then toke I yor father Abraham beyonde the water, & caused him to walke in the londe of Canaan, & multiplied his sede, and gaue him Isaac,
Matthew 1:2
Abraha begat Isaac: Isaac begat Iacob: Iacob begat Iudas & his brethre:
Acts 7:8
And he gaue him the couenaut of circucision. And he begat Isaac, and circucised him the eight daye. And Isaac begat Iacob and Iacob begat the twolue Patriarkes.
Romans 9:7
nether are they all children, because they are the sede of Abraham: but in Isaac shal the sede be called
Hebrews 11:18
of whom it was sayde: In Isaac shal thy sede be called:

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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