Plucking Grain On The Sabbath

²⁵ And he said to them, "Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was a hungered both he and they that were with him? ²⁶ How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the hallowed loaves, which is not lawful but for the priests only to eat: and gave also to them which were with him?" ²⁷ And he said to them, "The Sabbath day was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath day.

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2 Samuel 8:17

And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were the priests, and Seraiah was the scribe.

Leviticus 24:5-9

And thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve wastels thereof, two tenth deals shall every wastel be.

1 Samuel 21:1

Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was astonished at his coming, and said unto him, "Why cometh thou thyself alone, and no man with thee?"

1 Chronicles 24:6

And Shimeah the son of Nethanel the Scribe of the Levites wrote them before the king and the lords, and before Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the ancient heads of the priests and of the Levites: one principal household for Eleazar and one for Ithamar.

Exodus 29:32-33

And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of him, and the bread that is in the basket: even in the door of the tabernacle of witness.

1 Samuel 22:20-22

But yet one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to David,

1 Samuel 23:6

And it chanced when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah that he brought an ephod in his hand.

1 Samuel 23:9

But David had knowledge that Saul imagined mischief against him, and said therefore to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod."

2 Samuel 15:24

And behold, Zadok and all the Levites were with him and bare the ark of the covenant of God. And when they had fetched down the Ark of God, Abiathar came up, until the people were all come over, out of the city.

2 Samuel 15:29

And so Zadok and Abiathar carried the Ark of God again to Jerusalem, and they tarried there.

2 Samuel 15:35

And thou hast there with thee, Zadok and Abiathar the priests, unto which thou shalt show all that thou canst hear out of the king's house.

2 Samuel 20:25

Sheva was scribe. And Zadok and Abiathar were priests.

1 Kings 1:7

And he communed with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they helped Adonijah.

1 Kings 2:22

And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, "Why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? But rather ask for him the kingdom, seeing he is mine elder brother! Even for him ask it; and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."

1 Kings 2:26-27

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, "Get thee to Anathoth unto thine own fields, for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time kill thee, because thou hast borne the Ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou sufferest with my father in all his afflictions."

1 Kings 4:4

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; And Zadok and Abiathar were the priests;