1 Samuel 22:20 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 22:20

And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

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ASV

And one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

WEB

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

YLT

And there escapeth one son of Ahimelech, son of Ahitub, and his name is Abiathar, and he fleeth after David,

DBT

And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

About this book

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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1 Samuel 23:6
And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
1 Samuel 30:7
And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
1 Samuel 14:3
And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I–chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
1 Kings 2:26–27
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Samuel 23:9
And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.

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Let those that suffer for the Son of David commit the keeping of their souls to him, 1 Pet. iv. David's resentment of the melancholy tidings he brought. He gave David an account of the bloody work Saul had made among the priests of the Lord (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

On hearing his sad tale, David declared that he had dreaded such a fatal result from the malice and intriguing ambition of Doeg; and, accusing himself as having been the occasion of all the disaster to Abiathar's family, David invited him to remain, because, firmly trusting himself in the accomplishment of the divine promise, David could guarantee protection to him.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

1SA 22:201SA 23:9 1SA 30:7
1SA 22:201SA 23:9 1SA 14:18
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1SA 22:201SA 23:9 1SA 23:6
1SA 22:201SA 2:33 1KI 2:26-27
1SA 22:201SA 23:9 NUM 27:21
1SA 22:201SA 30:7 1SA 22:20-21
1SA 22:201SA 30:7 1KI 2:26
1SA 22:201SA 23:6 EXO 28:30-31

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