Ahimelech
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Sep 20, 2026
Will GrayHOST
We begin with Psalms 52, 53, and 54.
Will GrayHOST
Psalm 52, to the choir master, a maskill of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.
Will GrayHOST
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
Will GrayHOST
Your tongue plots destruction like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
Tim DilenaHOST
And Saul was lying in the circle of the camp and the people were camped around him.
Tim DilenaHOST
Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai, the son of Zariah, Joab's brother, saying, who will go down with me to Saul in the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with you.
Tim DilenaHOST
So David and Abishai came to the people by night and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head and Abner and the people were lying around him.
Tim DilenaHOST
David is in the middle of fulfilling the prophecy that he will be the next king of Israel, but he is still almost 20 years away from the throne.
Tim DilenaHOST
He will not touch God's anointed.
Tim DilenaHOST
But David doesn't want to go into Saul's camp alone.
Tim DilenaHOST
So he asks for volunteers from two men, Abishai and Ahimelech.
Tim DilenaHOST
This will be a decision that will change one of their lives.
Stephen JonesHOST
He's fleeing from Saul.
Stephen JonesHOST
And David sent him to, how do you say his name? Ahimelech.
Stephen JonesHOST
Ahimelech.
Stephen JonesHOST
So this
Don BradleyGUEST
is the high priest.
Don BradleyGUEST
That's the temple at the time.
Don BradleyGUEST
It's their portable temple.
Don BradleyGUEST
So he flees to the temple in need of a weapon, and he talks to the high priest Ahimelech.
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But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
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And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Bring me the ephod.
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So Abiathar brought the ephod to David, And David inquired of the Lord, Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them? He answered him, Pursue, for you shall surely overtake, and shall surely rescue.
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So David set out and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Bezor, where those who were left behind stayed.
Wayne StenderHOST
But David found strength in the Lord his God.
Wayne StenderHOST
And then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Bring me an ephod." And Abiathar brought it to him, and David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I pursue the raiding army? Will I overtake them?" "Pursue them," the Lord answered.
Wayne StenderHOST
"You will certainly overtake them and succeed them and rescue." You know, this passage is really interesting because David and his men return home to really discover that their city had been burned and their wives and children had been carried away, and his men weep.
Wayne StenderHOST
They have-- don't have strength left, really, in, in their grief.
Tim DilenaHOST
The innocent priest thought he was helping the royal crown by supporting David.
Tim DilenaHOST
Abimelech knew nothing of the insanity of the palace.
Tim DilenaHOST
Saul calls for all the priests of Nob, and then the unthinkable happens.
Tim DilenaHOST
This is 1 Samuel 22, 13.
Tim DilenaHOST
Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is to this day? Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, and who among all your servants is as faithful as David? Even the king's son-in-law, who is captain over your guard and is honored in your house, did I just begin to inquire of God for him today? Far be it from me.
Tim DilenaHOST
Do not let the king impute anything to his servant or to any of the house of my father, for your servant knows nothing at all of this whole affair." But the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all of your father's household.
Tim DilenaHOST
And the king said to the guards who were attending him, Turn around and put the priests of the Lord to death, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me.
Tim DilenaHOST
But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to attack the priests of the Lord.
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Verse twenty-six, epi abiathar.
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Under Abiathar, Ahimelech was the priest who gave loaves of bread to David.
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But on his being put to death for that very act, his son Abiathar presently after succeeded to him.
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And afterwards the priesthood of Abiathar and the reign of David were contemporary.
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The series of the priests was very well known among the Hebrews.
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And so the denomination of the mode of marking the age of David is taken from the priest of that day.
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And indeed the evangelist mentions Abiathar, in whose time the actions of David seem to have been entered in the sacred records, in preference to Ahimelech.
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Compare the use of epi Matthew one, verse eleven.
Tim DilenaHOST
His flight takes him into a village of priests called Nob.
Tim DilenaHOST
It is there he will meet Abimelech, the priest, who will give David two things for his journey.
Tim DilenaHOST
Listen to 1 Samuel 21.6.
Tim DilenaHOST
It says, so the priest gave him consecrated bread for there was no bread there, but the bread of the presence, which was removed from before the Lord in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.
Tim DilenaHOST
We are told what his thought was because he wrote a Psalm about his spitting incident and insanity defense in Gath.
Tim DilenaHOST
You may never have associated Psalm 34 with Gath and the insanity defense, but this is what David wrote in his journal.
Tim DilenaHOST
Right after the word Psalm 34, the Bible puts this subscript, Psalm 34. when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech who drove him away and he left.
Tim DilenaHOST
And then David penned these words.
Kristyn GettyHOST
And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
Kristyn GettyHOST
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahalud was recorder, and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Saraiah was secretary, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests.
Kristyn GettyHOST
And David said, Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? Now there was a servant of the house of Saul, whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David.
Kristyn GettyHOST
And the king said to him, Are you Ziba? And he said, I am your servant.
Conrad MbeweHOST
So David reigned over all Israel, and David administered justice and equity to all his people.
Conrad MbeweHOST
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, was Recorder, and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Sariah was secretary, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests.
Conrad MbeweHOST
And David said, Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David.
Conrad MbeweHOST
And the king said to him, Are you Ziba? And he said, I am your servant.
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