John Gill Commentary 1 Samuel 21:3

"Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present." — 1 Samuel 21:3 (ASV)

Now therefore what is under your hand ?
&c.] Meaning, what food had he in his house?

give [me] five [loaves of] bread in my hand ;
to take with him, for him and his servants in such a place:

or what there is present ;
or to be found ^F7 in the tabernacle; if not five loaves, two, or three, or four, or what food whatsoever he had by him.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F7: (aumnh) "quicquid inveneris", V. L, "inventum", Montanus; "quicquid inventum fuerit", Tigurine version.