Ahimelech אֲחִימֶ֫לֶךְ

A High Priest. Ahimelech, the High Priest at Nob, gave David consecrated bread and Goliath's sword but was later killed by Saul for aiding David.

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Also called Ahimelek, Ahijah, Ahiah.

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Where Ahimelech appears

1 Samuel (12), Psalms (1)

Key verses

• 1 Samuel 14:3 first mention — And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
• 1 Samuel 14:18 — And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
• 1 Samuel 21:1 — Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
• 1 Samuel 21:2 — And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
• 1 Samuel 22:9 — Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
• 1 Samuel 22:11 — Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
• 1 Samuel 22:14 — Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
• 1 Samuel 22:16 — And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
• 1 Samuel 22:20 — And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
• 1 Samuel 23:6 — And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
• 1 Samuel 30:7 — And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
• Psalms 52:1 — [To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.] Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Several people in the Bible share this name; this page is about the one described above. Verse text: King James Version.