1 Samuel 21:3

New Revised Standard

Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."

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.

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."

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 came to Nob to the priest Ahimelech. Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?" David said to the priest Ahimelech, "The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, ‘No one must know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.' I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here." The priest answered David, "I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women." David answered the priest, "Indeed women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?" So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord , to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord ; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds. David said to Ahimelech, "Is there no spear or sword here with you? I did not bring my sword or my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste." The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you will take that, take it, for there is none here except that one." David said, "There is none like it; give it to me." David rose and fled that day from Saul; he went to King Achish of Gath. The servants of Achish said to him, "Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, ‘Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?" David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of King Achish of Gath. So he changed his behavior before them; he pretended to be mad when in their presence. He scratched marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard. Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me? Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?" ²David and the Holy Bread David came to Nob to the priest Ahimelech. Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?" David said to the priest Ahimelech, "The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, ‘No one must know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.' I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. ³ Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here." ⁴ The priest answered David, "I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women." ⁵ David answered the priest, "Indeed women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?" ⁶ So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord , to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away. ⁷ Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord ; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds. ⁸ David said to Ahimelech, "Is there no spear or sword here with you? I did not bring my sword or my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste." ⁹ The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you will take that, take it, for there is none here except that one." David said, "There is none like it; give it to me."

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
God said, "No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

Genesis 21:6
Now Sarah said, "God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."

Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you.

Genesis 22:2
He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you."

Joshua 24:3
Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac;

Matthew 1:2
Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

Acts 7:8
Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

Romans 9:7
and not all of Abraham's children are his true descendants; but "It is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you."

Hebrews 11:18
of whom he had been told, "It is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you."

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.