1 Samuel 23:6

Good News Translation

When Abiathar son of Ahimelech escaped and joined David in Keilah, he took the ephod with him.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:26

Then King Solomon said to Abiathar the priest, “Go to your country home in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not have you put to death now, for you were in charge of the Lord's Covenant Box while you were with my father David, and you shared in all his troubles.”

Exodus 28:6

“They are to make the ephod of blue, purple, and red wool, gold thread, and fine linen, decorated with embroidery.

1 Samuel 14:18

“Bring the ephod here,” Saul said to Ahijah the priest. (On that day Ahijah was carrying it in front of the people of Israel.)

1 Samuel 14:3

(The priest carrying the ephod was Ahijah, the son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub, who was the son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh.) The men did not know that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 22:20

But Abiathar, one of Ahimelech's sons, escaped, and went and joined David.

1 Samuel 23:2

So he asked the Lord, “Shall I go and attack the Philistines?” “Yes,” the Lord answered. “Attack them and save Keilah.”

1 Samuel 23:5

So David and his men went to Keilah and attacked the Philistines; they killed many of them and took their livestock. And so it was that David saved the town.

1 Samuel 23:7

Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, “God has put him in my power. David has trapped himself by going into a walled town with fortified gates.”

1 Samuel 23:9

When David heard that Saul was planning to attack him, he said to the priest Abiathar, “Bring the ephod here.”

1 Samuel 30:7

David said to the priest Abiathar son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod,” and Abiathar brought it to him.