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DID DAVID SHARE HIS BREAD WITH HIS COMPANIONS?
Mark 2:25-26  And he (Jesus) said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?  How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him? (KJV)


According to the critic here, there is nothing in the Old Testament about David sharing bread with them, so Jesus asking them to "read" about David sharing bread is impossible.

The passage Jesus is referring to is 1 Samuel 21:4-6: "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.  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.  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."

Either the critic missed that passage, or thinks that because it doesn't specifically say that David shared the bread, he must not have.  But the priest's refusal to share the bread unless David's companions had been celibate makes it clear that the priest was giving the bread (five loaves, by the way) for all to share, not for David himself to eat.  Not a contradiction.

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