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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech 2 Samuel 8:17

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech 1 Chronicles 24:3, 6, 31

With the help of Eleazar’s descendant Zadok and Ithamar’s descendant Ahimelech, David divided them according to the offices of their service. / The scribe, Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king and of the officers: Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites—one family being taken from Eleazar, and then one from Ithamar. / As their brothers the descendants of Aaron did, they also cast lots in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites—the family heads and their younger brothers alike.

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: And Abimelech 1 Chronicles 18:16

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Associate High Priest with Zadok in the Reign of David 2 Samuel 15:35

Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be there with you? Report to them everything you hear from the king’s palace.

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Associate High Priest with Zadok in the Reign of David 2 Samuel 20:25

Sheva was the scribe; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Associate High Priest with Zadok in the Reign of David 1 Kings 4:4

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Associate High Priest with Zadok in the Reign of David 1 Chronicles 15:11

David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: but Called Ahimelech and Father of Abiathar 2 Samuel 8:17

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: but Called Ahimelech and Father of Abiathar 1 Chronicles 18:16

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Consults the Ephod for David 1 Samuel 22:9–12

But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob. / Ahimelech inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.” / Then the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his father’s whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Consults the Ephod for David 1 Samuel 30:9–12

So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind / because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit. / Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Loyal to David when Absalom Rebelled 2 Samuel 15:24–29

Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until the people had passed out of the city. / Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again. / But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Son of Ahimelech 1 Samuel 22:20

But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Supports Adonijah's Pretensions to the Throne 1 Kings 1:7

So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him.

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Thrust out of office by Solomon 1 Kings 2:26, 27

Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.” / So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.

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Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Thrust out of office by Solomon 1 Samuel 2:31–35

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house. / You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age. / And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.

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