how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. How he entered, and so forth The house of God was then at Nobe. In Saint Mark, the high priest is called Abiathar. See Calmet. 2:26. To this difficulty some answer, that the father and son bore these two names, Achimelec and Abiathar. This they attempt to prove from 2 Kennicott. 8:18, and 1 Paral. 24:3. Others say that Abiathar, son of Achimelec, was present, and sanctioned the action of his father, thus making it his own. Others again contend, that it ought to have been translated, in the chapter called Abiathar, instead of under Abiathar: for the Jews divided the Scripture into parts, and called them by the names of the most remarkable person or thing spoken of in them. Thus Romans, 2:2. In Elias, means in the part called Elias.—The loaves of proposition. So were called the twelve loaves which were placed before the sanctuary, in the temple of God. Challoner.—These were exposed every sabbath, on the golden table, before the Lord. V.