Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

                                 ABIATHAR

1SA 2:31  The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the 
strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in 
your family line

1SA 2:32  and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be 
done to Israel, in your family line there will never be an old man.

1SA 2:33  Every one of you that I do not cut off from my altar will be 
spared only to blind your eyes with tears and to grieve your heart, and all 
your descendants will die in the prime of life.

1SA 2:34  "'And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be 
a sign to you--they will both die on the same day.

1SA 2:35  I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do 
according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his 
house, and he will minister before my anointed one always.

1SA 22:6  Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. And 
Saul, spear in hand, was seated under the tamarisk tree on the hill at 
Gibeah, with all his officials standing around him.

1SA 22:7  Saul said to them, "Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of 
Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you 
commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?

1SA 22:8  Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me 
when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is 
concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in 
wait for me, as he does today."

1SA 22:9  But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul's officials, 
said, "I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.

1SA 22:10  Ahimelech inquired of the LORD for him; he also gave him 
provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

1SA 22:11  Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub and 
his father's whole family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came 
to the king.

1SA 22:12  Saul said, "Listen now, son of Ahitub." "Yes, my lord," he 
answered.

1SA 22:13  Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and 
the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for 
him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does 
today?"

1SA 22:14  Ahimelech answered the king, "Who of all your servants is as 
loyal as David, the king's son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly 
respected in your household?

1SA 22:15  Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course 
not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father's family, 
for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair."

1SA 22:16  But the king said, "You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and your 
father's whole family."

1SA 22:17  Then the king ordered the guards at his side: "Turn and kill the 
priests of the LORD, because they too have sided with David. They knew he 
was fleeing, yet they did not tell me." But the king's officials were not 
willing to raise a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.

1SA 22:18  The king then ordered Doeg, "You turn and strike down the 
priests." So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he 
killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

1SA 22:19  He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its 
men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.

1SA 22:20  But Abiathar, a son of Ahimelech son of Ahitub, escaped and fled 
to join David.

1SA 22:21  He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

1SA 22:22  Then David said to Abiathar: "That day, when Doeg the Edomite 
was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the 
death of your father's whole family.

1SA 22:23  Stay with me; don't be afraid; the man who is seeking your life 
is seeking mine also. You will be safe with me."

1SA 23:9  When David learned that Saul was plotting against him, he said to 
Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod."

1SA 30:7  Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, 
"Bring me the ephod." Abiathar brought it to him,

2SA 8:17  Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; 
Seraiah was secretary;

2SA 15:6  Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to 
the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the men of 
Israel.

2SA 15:24  Zadok was there, too, and all the Levites who were with him were 
carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set down the ark of God, and 
Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving the 
city.

2SA 15:25  Then the king said to Zadok, "Take the ark of God back into the 
city. If I find favor in the LORD'S eyes, he will bring me back and let me 
see it and his dwelling place again.

2SA 15:26  But if he says, 'I am not pleased with you,' then I am ready; 
let him do to me whatever seems good to him."

2SA 15:27  The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Go 
back to the city in peace, with your son Ahimaaz and Jonathan son of 
Abiathar. You and Abiathar take your two sons with you.

2SA 15:28  I will wait at the fords in the desert until word comes from you 
to inform me."

2SA 15:29  So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and 
stayed there.

2SA 15:35  Won't the priests Zadok and Abiathar be there with you? Tell 
them anything you hear in the king's palace.

2SA 17:15  Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, "Ahithophel has 
advised Absalom and the elders of Israel to do such and such, but I have 
advised them to do so and so.

2SA 17:16  Now send a message immediately and tell David, 'Do not spend the 
night at the fords in the desert; cross over without fail, or the king and 
all the people with him will be swallowed up.'"

2SA 17:17  Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel. A servant girl 
was to go and inform them, and they were to go and tell King David, for 
they could not risk being seen entering the city.

2SA 17:18  But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them 
left quickly and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in 
his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

2SA 17:19  His wife took a covering and spread it out over the opening of 
the well and scattered grain over it. No one knew anything about it.

2SA 17:20  When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, 
"Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman answered them, "They crossed 
over the brook." The men searched but found no one, so they returned to 
Jerusalem.

2SA 17:21  After the men had gone, the two climbed out of the well and went 
to inform King David. They said to him, "Set out and cross the river at 
once; Ahithophel has advised such and such against you."

2SA 17:22  So David and all the people with him set out and crossed the 
Jordan. By daybreak, no one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.

2SA 20:25  Sheva was secretary; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1KI 1:7  Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the 
priest, and they gave him their support.

1KI 2:26  To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go back to your fields in 
Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because 
you carried the ark of the Sovereign LORD before my father David and shared 
all my father's hardships."

1KI 2:27  So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD, 
fulfilling the word the LORD had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.

1KI 4:4  Benaiah son of Jehoiada--commander in chief; Zadok and 
Abiathar--priests;

1CH 15:11  Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and Uriel, 
Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab the Levites.

1CH 18:16  Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; 
Shavsha was secretary;

1CH 24:3  With the help of Zadok a descendant of Eleazar and Ahimelech a 
descendant of Ithamar, David separated them into divisions for their 
appointed order of ministering.

1CH 24:6  The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their 
names in the presence of the king and of the officials: Zadok the priest, 
Ahimelech son of Abiathar and the heads of families of the priests and of 
the Levites--one family being taken from Eleazar and then one from Ithamar.

1CH 24:31  They also cast lots, just as their brothers the descendants of 
Aaron did, in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelech, and the 
heads of families of the priests and of the Levites. The families of the 
oldest brother were treated the same as those of the youngest.

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