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Ahimelech (1Sa 14:3)
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Ahimelech (1Sa 14:3)

Son of Ahitub, father of Abiathar, in the united monarchy of Israel. Named in scripture at 1 Samuel 14:3.

Lived: United Monarchy

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BibleSon of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 14:3

Where in scripture

1 SamuelPsalms

including Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.

1 Samuel 14:3

Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.

1 Samuel 14:18

Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”

1 Samuel 21:1

David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’

1 Samuel 21:2

David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

1 Samuel 21:8

Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

1 Samuel 22:9

Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.

1 Samuel 22:11

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

1 Samuel 22:14

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.

1 Samuel 14:31 Samuel 14:181 Samuel 21:11 Samuel 21:21 Samuel 21:81 Samuel 22:91 Samuel 22:111 Samuel 22:141 Samuel 22:161 Samuel 22:201 Samuel 23:61 Samuel 30:7Psalms 52:1

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