How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread , which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
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Gill's Exposition
And he said unto them,.... Continuing his answer to them, and adding, in confirmation of what he had said, and for the further vindication of his disciples,
the sabbath was made for man; for his…
See Mat 12:1-8. The cornfields - The fields sown with wheat or barley. The word “corn,” in the Bible, refers only to grain of that kind, and never to “maize” or “Indian corn.” To pluck the ears of…
Adam Clarke
The days of Abiathar the high priest - It appears from Sa1 21:1, which is the place referred to here, that Ahimelech was then high priest at Nob: and from Sa1 22:20; Sa1 23:6, and Ch1 18:16, it…
Christ had been put to justify himself in conversing with publicans and sinners: here he is put to justify his disciples; and in what they do according to his will he will justify them, and bear them…
Cambridge Bible
Abiathar In 2Sa 8:17, and the parallel passage 1Ch 18:16, we find Ahimelechsubstituted for Abiathar; while in 2Sa 20:25, and every other passage of the O. T., we are told it was Abiathar who was…
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