So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before Yahweh to be replaced with warm bread on the day it was taken away.
Traditional numbering: 21:6
In context
5The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread on hand, only consecrated bread — provided the young men have kept themselves from women.” 6David answered the priest, “Indeed, women have been kept from us as always whenever I set out on a mission — the bodies of my men are consecrated even on an ordinary journey, how much more today, when their bodies will truly be consecrated.” 7So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before Yahweh to be replaced with warm bread on the day it was taken away. 8Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained there under a vow before Yahweh; his name was Doeg the Edomite, chief of Saul’s shepherds. 9David said to Ahimelech, “Do you have a spear or a sword on hand? I did not bring my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business was urgent.”
