Mark 2:26

²⁴ So the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

²⁵ Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”

²⁷ Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

²⁸ Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”
KJV: How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
WEB: 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?”
ASV: How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?
DARBY: how he entered into the house of God, in [the section of] Abiathar [the] high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?
BLB: how he entered into the house of God in [the time of] Abiathar the high priest, and he ate the loaves of the presentation, which is not lawful to eat, except for the priests—and he gave also to those being with him?”

ÅB: hvordan han gikk inn i Guds hus, da Abjatar var yppersteprest, og spiste skuebrødene, som ingen har lov til å spise uten prestene, og gav også dem som var med ham?
OTB: hvordan han gikk inn i Guds hus i Abiatar, yppersteprestens tid, og spiste skuebrødene, som det bare er lov for prestene å spise, og han ga også noe til sine følgesvenner?"
B1930: hvorledes han gikk inn i Guds hus, da Abjatar var yppersteprest, og åt skuebrødene, som ingen har lov til å ete uten prestene, og gav også dem som var med ham?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

2 Samuel 8:17
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
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Leviticus 24:5–9
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
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1 Samuel 21:1
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
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1 Chronicles 24:6
The scribe, Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king and of the officers: Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites—one family being taken from Eleazar, and then one from Ithamar.
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1 Kings 2:26–27
Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
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1 Samuel 22:20–22
But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.
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Exodus 29:32–33
At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
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1 Samuel 23:9
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
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