1 Samuel 21.1
1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest:
and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David,
and said unto him,
Why art thou alone,
and no man with thee?
2 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 I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
3 Now therefore what is under thine hand?
give me five loaves of bread in mine hand,
or what there is present.
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 the priest, and said unto him,
Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days,
since I came out,
and the vessels of the young men are holy,
and the bread is in a manner common, yea,
though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread:
for there was no bread there but the showbread,
that was taken from before the LORD,
to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
