Have ye not read] If ye have read this, ye might there have found that which might free you from this errour; if not, ye have not been so versed in the holy Storie as ye should. what David did] 1 Samuel 21:6. You must either blame your patriarch David, or free my disciples. and they that were with him] David then had some that accompanied him in his flight, though he be said to come alone to the priest, 1 Samuel 21:1. It seems they stayed for him in some place nigh, and he brought of the shew-bread thither to them. See 1 Samuel 21:5.