Discovery Box1 Kings 7:48 
Context7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, 1
1 Kings 14:3
Context14:3 Take 2 ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”
1 Kings 22:27
Context22:27 Say, ‘This is what the king says, “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water 3 until I safely return.”’” 4
1 tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.
sn This bread was viewed as a perpetual offering to God and was regarded as holy. See Lev 24:5-9.
2 tn Heb “take in your hand.”
3 tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”
