1 SAMUEL 21:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
So the priest gave him holy bread — Ahimelech's *va'yiten lo ha'kohen et lechem kodesh*, gave him holy bread, represents a rupture of cultic law in response to human need. The priest's willingness to transgress the boundary between sacred and profane foreshadows the catastrophic consequences that will follow: the sanctuary's violation will bring destruction upon itself.
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