1 Samuel 21:6
King James Version
“So the priest gave him hallowed 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.”
Context
3Now therefore what is under thine hand? give five bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
4And the priest answered David, and said, no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
5And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
6So the priest gave him hallowed 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.
7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that to Saul.
8And 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.
9And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take for no other save that here. And David said, none like that; give it me.