Text -- 1 Samuel 21:4 (NET)

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Sa 21:4

¹ tn Heb “servants.”

² tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”