The priest answered—There is no common bread, &c.— Cases of necessity, as the Jews themselves allow, often superseded the observation of the ritual laws; and this compliance of Ahimelech's is urged with great force by our Saviour, in vindication of a similar case, Mark 2:25 to which place we shall refer for more upon the subject, and for a solution of the difficulties arising from the different names.
COMMON - As opposed to holy. (See the marginal references, and compare the use of the word in Acts 10:14, Acts 10:28.) It gives an idea of the depressed and poor condition of the priesthood at that ti...
6. DAVID'S VARIED EXPERIENCES CHAPTER 21 _ 1. David at Nob with Ahimelech (1 Samuel 21:1)_ 2. David's flight to Achish, King of Gath (1 Samuel 21:10) With this chapter begins the record of David's...
1 SAMUEL 21. DAVID AT NOB AND GATH. 1 Samuel 21:1 (J). From one of the ancient documents; it is not clear which of the previous sections finds its sequel here. It is often connected with 1 Samuel 19:1...
COMMON: i.e. or unhallowed. HALLOWED. holy. See note on Exodus 3:5. KEPT. And thus ceremonially clean, to eat such bread....
_common_ Lit. profane or unholy, i.e. unconsecrated. Vulg. "laicos panes....
David's Flight to Gath, 1 Samuel 21:1-15. _David At Nob._ 1 Samuel 21:1-9 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why _ar...
_AND THE PRIEST ANSWERED DAVID, AND SAID, THERE IS NO COMMON BREAD UNDER MINE HAND, BUT THERE IS_ _ HALLOWED BREAD; IF THE YOUNG MEN HAVE KEPT THEMSELVES AT LEAST FROM WOMEN._ Hallowed bread, х_ LECH...
THE FLIGHT OF DAVID David first of all flees to Nob, where Ahimelech supplies him with food and gives him the sword of Goliath. He next takes refuge with Achish at Gath....
HALLOWED BREAD] i.e. the shewbread. It was removed every sabbath and fresh loaves substituted....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 21 DAVID GOES TO THE TOWN OF NOB V1 David went and visited Ahimelech the priest. He lived in the town of Nob. Ahimelech trembled when he went...
THERE IS NO COMMON BREAD. — The condition of the priests in these days of Saul was evidently a pitiable one. The terrible massacre related in the next chapter seems not to have excited the wail of ind...
_[1 Samuel 21:5]_ וַ יַּ֨עַן הַ כֹּהֵ֤ן אֶת...
CHAPTER XXVIII. _ DAVID AT NOB AND AT GATH._ 1 Samuel 21:1. WE enter here on a somewhat painful part of David's history. He is not living so near to God as before; and in consequence his course beco...
FOOD AND WEAPON: A SIDE STEP 1 Samuel 21:1 David fled to Nob, at the north of the Mount of Olives, where Ahimelech presided over the relics of the ancient sanctuary. His suspicions were removed by an...
Under such trying stress, the land itself seemed too hot to hold David, and he takes refuge in flight. The story of his period of exile, with its varied experiences, follows. His movements during this...
And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from (c) women. (c) If they have not a...
If the young men be clean, &c. If this cleanness was required of them that were to eat that bread, which was but a figure of the bread of life which we receive in the blessed sacrament [the Eucharist]...
(4) And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. (5) And David answered th...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
The elect king is now rejected. He repairs to the priest, who gives him the hallowed bread, according to the sovereign grace of God, who rises above the ordinances that are connected with blessing, wh...
AND THE PRIEST ANSWERED DAVID, AND SAID, [THERE IS] NO COMMON BREAD UNDER MINE HAND,.... In the tabernacle, though he might have such in his own house; which was common for any man to eat of, even suc...
And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. Ver. 4. _There is no commo...
_What is under thy hand?_ He desires to know what he was able to do for him to supply his wants. And particularly he requests some bread for himself and servants. _Or what there is present_ That is, a...
[DAUID AT NOB.] 1 Dauid at Nob, obtaineth of Ahimelech hallowed bread. 7 Doeg was present. 8 Dauid taketh Goliaths sword. 10 Dauid at Gath faineth himselfe madde. 1 THEN came Dauid to Nob, to Ahi...
DAVID AT NOB...
And the priest answered David and said, There is, no common bread under mine hand, no kind of ordinary bread, such as was commonly used for food, BUT THERE IS HALLOWED BREAD, for apparently the cakes...
David came down to Nob, which was a cause of alarm to Ahimelech the priest, who asks why he had no man with him. It would seem from the history here that he had no-one identified with him, yet there m...
1-9 David, in distress, fled to the tabernacle of God. It is great comfort in a day of trouble, that we have a God to go to, to whom we may open our cases, and from whom we may ask and expect directi...
UNDER MINE HAND, to wit, here in the tabernacle; though doubtless he had enough of that and of other provisions in his house; but David was in great haste, and in fear of Doeg, whom he saw and knew th...
1 Samuel 21:4 priest H3548 answered H6030 (H8799) David H1732 said H559 (H8799) common H2455 bread H3899 hand...
AS A REFUGEE DAVID VISITS AHIMELECH THE PRIEST AND OBTAINS PROVISIONS AND WEAPONS (1 SAMUEL 21:1). Recognising that he dare not return home to obtain food or weapons, the refugee David seeks help from...
CONTENTS: David flees to Ahimelech and Achish. CHARACTERS: David, Ahimelech, Doeg, Achish. CONCLUSION: If we would but trust God aright, we would not have to resort to miserable and dishonoring devi...
1 Samuel 21:1. _Nob;_ fifteen miles west of Jerusalem, and on the road to Gath, where the wandering ark now rested. It was a little city of priests. After they were all murdered, by Saul, the ark was...
_Then came David to Nob._ ALMOST GONE It is not easy to walk with God. I. The steps of David’s declension. The first sign of what was impending was his remark to Jonathan, that there was but a step...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 21:1 David begins his life as a fugitive. He moves around from place to place, gathering a group of 400 men, which later increases to 600. Saul is single-minded in his determ...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 21:4 COMMON BREAD, which might be eaten by anyone, is distinguished from HOLY BREAD, which, like sacrifices, could be eaten only by the “clean” (e.g.,...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 21:1. The position of Nob cannot now be determined, only from Isaiah 10:28, we gather that it was on the road northward between Jerusalem and Anathoth. Porter i...
DAVID'S FLIGHT TO NOB, AND SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE PHILISTINES (1 Samuel 21:1.). EXPOSITION DAVID'S FLIGHT TO NOB ...
So David now fled to Nob to Ahimelech who was the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said to him, Why are you alone, why aren't there men with you? [You know David was a cap...
1 Corinthians 7:5; 1 Samuel 21:6; Exodus 19:15; Exodus 25:30;...
There is, &c. — Here in the tabernacle: though doubtless he had other provisions is his house; but David was in great haste, and in fear of Doeg whom he saw, and knew and therefore would not stay 'til...