Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Samuel 21:6

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Samuel 21:6

"So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away."

The story of Ahimelech the priest giving David the shewbread to eat, was retold by Jesus to the Pharisees. They had asked if it was lawful on the sabbath day for Jesus to go through a corn field with his disciples, and for them to pluck ears of corn and eat it.

"But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?"

(Matthew 12:3-4)

David partaking of the shewbread, which was only for the priests, was technically a violation of the Mosaic Law. Jesus, however, used this incident to show that in times of dire necessity a breach of the ritual law was not a sin. As Paul said, "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life" (2 Corinthians 3:6)

(Old Testament manual, 1 Samuel 16-31: King David's Call to Lead Israel, 25-22)

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