1 Samuel 23:6

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When Ahimelech’s son Abiathar fled to David at Keilah, Abiathar brought a priestly ephod  with him.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:26

The king told the priest Abiathar, “Go to your land in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I won’t kill you at this time because you carried the ark of the Almighty Lord ahead of my father David and because you shared all my father’s sufferings.”

Exodus 28:6

“Make the ephod out of fine linen yarn. Creatively work gold, violet, purple, and bright red yarn into the fabric.

1 Samuel 14:18

Then Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the priestly ephod,” because Ahijah carried the ephod in front of Israel that day.

1 Samuel 14:3

in addition to Ahijah, the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub, who was the son of Phinehas and the grandson of Eli, the Lord’s priest at Shiloh. Ahijah was wearing the priestly ephod. The troops didn’t know Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 22:20

But Ahimelech, Ahitub’s son, had one son who escaped. His name was Abiathar. He fled to David.

1 Samuel 23:2

David asked the Lord, “Should I go and attack these Philistines?” “Go,” the Lord told David, “attack the Philistines, and save Keilah.”

1 Samuel 23:5

David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines, drove off their livestock, and decisively defeated them. So David rescued the people who lived in Keilah.

1 Samuel 23:7

When Saul was told that David went to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hands. He has trapped himself by going into a city which has ⌞a gate with⌟ a double door ⌞held shut by⌟ a bar.”

1 Samuel 23:9

When David learned that Saul was planning to harm him, he told the priest Abiathar, “Bring the ephod.”

1 Samuel 30:7

David told the priest Abiathar, Ahimelech’s son, “Please bring me the priestly ephod.”  So Abiathar brought David the ephod.