1 Samuel

Chapters

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
6. 6
7. 7
8. 8
9. 9
10. 10
11. 11
12. 12
13. 13
14. 14
15. 15
16. 16
17. 17
18. 18
19. 19
20. 20
21. 21
22. 22
23. 23
24. 24
25. 25
26. 26
27. 27
28. 28
29. 29
30. 30
31. 31

In the maps

• 1 Samuel 21:4

  The priest will give David's men the holy bread only if they have abstained from women. Pitre uses the text, with Exodus 19:15, to show that in Israel closeness to the holy required sexual abstinence (p 103). If Joseph understood that Mary was the new Ark, the vessel of God's presence, abstinence from her would have followed from the Law's own logic.