Mark 2:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?”

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  • 2 Sam 8:17 : 17 Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was scribe;
  • Lev 24:5-9 : 5 “You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf, 6 and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, on the ceremonially pure table before the LORD. 7 You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the LORD. 8 Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the LORD continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant. 9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion from the gifts of the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 21:1 : 1 David Goes to Nob(21:1) Then David got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.(21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met David, and said to him,“Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”
  • 1 Chr 24:6 : 6 The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, wrote down their names before the king, the officials, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the leaders of the priestly and Levite families. One family was drawn by lot from Eleazar, and then the next from Ithamar.
  • Exod 29:32-33 : 32 Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 33 They are to eat those things by which atonement was made to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else may eat them, for they are holy.
  • 1 Sam 22:20-22 : 20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar. 21 Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD. 22 Then David said to Abiathar,“I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty of all the deaths in your father’s house!
  • 1 Sam 23:6 : 6 David Eludes Saul Again Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod.
  • 1 Sam 23:9 : 9 When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, he told Abiathar the priest,“Bring the ephod!”
  • 2 Sam 15:24 : 24 Zadok and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. When they positioned the ark of God, Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving the city.
  • 2 Sam 15:29 : 29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and remained there.
  • 2 Sam 15:35 : 35 Zadok and Abiathar the priests will be there with you. Everything you hear in the king’s palace you must tell Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
  • 2 Sam 20:25 : 25 Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests.
  • 1 Kgs 1:7 : 7 He collaborated with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they supported him.
  • 1 Kgs 2:22 : 22 King Solomon answered his mother,“Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
  • 1 Kgs 2:26-27 : 26 The king then told Abiathar the priest,“Go back to your property in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the Sovereign LORD before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” 27 Solomon removed Abiathar from being a priest for the LORD, fulfilling the LORD’s message that he had pronounced against the family of Eli in Shiloh.
  • 1 Kgs 4:4 : 4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was commander of the army.Zadok and Abiathar were priests.

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