²⁶ how he entered the house of God, in the time of^{[a] (A)}Abiathar the high priest, and ate ^(B)the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”

¹⁷ and ^(A)Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and ^(B)Seraiah was secretary,

⁶ And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and ^(A)Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father's house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.

David and the Holy Bread

21 ^[a] Then David came to ^(A)Nob, to ^(B)Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech ^(C)came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”

Bread for the Tabernacle

⁵ “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^(A)loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah^[a] shall be in each loaf. ⁶ And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, ^(B)on the table of pure gold^[b] before the Lord. ⁷ And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. ^8 (C)Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. ⁹ And ^(D)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and ^(E)they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord's food offerings, a perpetual due.”

²⁶ And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to ^(A)Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, ^(B)because you carried the ark of the Lord God before David my father, ^(C)and because you shared in all my father's affliction.” ^27 (D)So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, thus fulfilling ^(E)the word of the Lord that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

²⁰ But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named ^(A)Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. ²¹ And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord. ²² And David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, ^(B)when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house.

^4 (A)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; ^(B)Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

²² King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask ^(A)Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, ^(B)for he is my older brother, and on his side ^(C)are Abiathar^[a] the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah.”