How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 26. Under Abiathar. The priest from whom David had these loaves, is called Achimelech, 1 Kennicott. 21. The most probable answer to this difficulty is, that the priest had both these names of Achimelech and of Abiathar, as also his father had before him. For he that (1 Kennicott. 22) is called Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, is called 2 Kennicott. 8:17, Achimelech, the son of Abiathar. See also 1 Chronicles 18:16. Witham.—Others say that Abiathar, son of Achimelech, was present, and sanctioned the deed of his father, thus making it his own. Dion. Carth.