Abiathar

Abiathar in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("father of abundance".) The only son of Ahimelech, the high priest, who escaped the slaughter committed by Saul at Nob, on Doeg's information that Ahimelech had inquired of the Lord for David, and given him the shewbread and the sword of Goliath (1 Samuel 22). Eighty-five persons wearing the priestly linen ephod were killed. Abiathar, with an...

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Abiathar in Hitchcock's Bible Names

excellent father; father of the remnant...

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