Abiathar In 2 Samuel 8:17, and the parallel passage 1 Chronicles 18:16, we find Ahimelechsubstituted for Abiathar; while in 2 Samuel 20:25, and every other passage of the O. T., we are told it was Abiathar who was priest with Zadok in David's reign, and that he was the son of Ahimelech. Some therefore suppose that there is a clerical error here in the MSS. Others think that the loaves of shewbread belonged to Abiathar, at this time a priest (Leviticus 24:9), that he persuaded his father to let David have them, and gave them to him with his own hand.

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