Bible Topics for Kids
ABIATHAR, 1. High priest. Called AHIMELECH in
2 Samuel 15:35-36
35. Don't you have Zadok and ABIATHAR the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king's house, tell it to Zadok and ABIATHAR the priests.
36. Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, ABIATHAR's son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them."
2 Samuel 17:15-22
15. Then Hushai said to Zadok and to ABIATHAR the priests, "Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.
16. Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, 'Don't lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.'"
17. Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
18. But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
19. The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.
20. Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?"The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water."When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
21. After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, "Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you."
22. Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
1 Kings 2:26
To ABIATHAR the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord God's ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted."