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Ahimelech

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[uh-him-uh-lek] / əˈhɪm əˌlɛk /
Douay Bible, Achimelech

noun

  1. (in the Bible) a priest who was killed by Saul for helping David.


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But in his company was a priest, Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, grandson of Eli, perhaps the same as Ahimelech, afterwards introduced.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander

Then David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest who came trembling to meet David and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"

From The Children's Bible by Sherman, Henry A.

Why hast thou conspired against me," he said to Ahimelech, "thou and the son of Jesse, that he has rebelled against me.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max

As for Micky, he only perceived that David and Saul, Doeg the Edomite, and Ahimelech the Priest, were religious, and therefore bores.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

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