The death of Ahimelech, as the great-grandson of Eli, is seen as fulfilling part of the curse on the House of Eli that none of his male descendants would live to old age.

Abiathar ( אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the father is pre-eminent or father of plenty ), in the Hebrew Bible, son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli ( 1 Sam.

Part of the curse on the House of Eli – that none of Eli's male descendants would live to old age – was fulfilled with the death of Ahimelech ; the other part of the Curse on the House of Eli – that the priesthood would pass out of his descendants – was fulfilled when Abiathar was deposed from the office of High Priest.

In the parallel passage,, the name is given as Ahimelech ; most authorities consider this the more correct reading.

14: 3, 18 ), Ichabod's brother ; the same probably as Ahimelech, who was High Priest at Nob in the reign of Saul ( 1 Sam.

In this period the Hittites are mentioned as the ethnic label of two military commanders under king David ( around 1000 BC ), Ahimelech and Uriah ; the latter is murdered by David for the sake of his wife Bathsheba.

) Instead of repeating the same name as an ancestor, however, it was customary to make use of one of the elements of the family name ; thus Ahitub has two sons, Ahijah and Ahimelech.

A similar confusion occurs in Gospel of Mark 2: 26: In reporting Jesus ' words, the evangelist confused Abiathar with Ahimelech, a mistake into which he was led by the constant association of David ‘ s name with Abiathar.

Saul is later informed by his head shepherd, an Edomite named Doeg, that Ahimelech assisted David.

Statuary David receives sacral bread from the priest Ahimelech in Ceremoniall Hall in Hradisko Monastery in Olomouc ( Czech Republic ) created by Josef A. Winterhalder in 1734.

Ahimelech giving the sword of Goliath to David, by Aert de Gelder.

There is a faint possibility that this Ahitub was made high priest by Saul after the extermination of the family of Ahimelech, but it is very unlikely as there are apparently no references supporting this.

He did not inform the king that Ahimelech was deceived by David, and that Ahimelech provided support because he thought he was serving the king.

: Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

The heading above records that David wrote it after Doeg the Edomite betrayed Ahimelech to Saul.

He went to Ahimelech, the High Priest, claiming to be on a clandestine royal mission.

A henchman is sought to kill Ahimelech and the other priests of Nob.

Some, however, suppose that Ahimelech was the brother of Ahijah, and that they both officiated as high priests, Ahijah at Gibeah or Kirjath-jearim, and Ahimelech at Nob.

Ahimelech ( Hebrew: אחימלך " the king is brother "), the son of Ahitub and father of Abiathar ( 1 Sam.

Possibly Abiathar had a son also called Ahimelech, or the two names, as some think, may have been accidentally transposed in 2 Sam.

In the Bible, Nob is where David fled to the high priest Ahimelech and where he received the sword of Goliath, which was kept.

Ahimelech fed David and his men with the showbread, and gave David the sword of Goliath.

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