▶ 아비아달(Abiathar)

뜻:생존한 아버지

놉의 제사장 아히멜렉의 아들 부친이 다윗을 보호했기 때문에 놉의 제사장은 사울에게 살해되었다. 이때 아비아달 만이 도망하여 살았다.

다윗 즉위시에 사독과 같이 제사장으로 임명(삼하15:24-36).
다윗의 왕 계승시에 아도니야를 지지한 탓으로 솔로몬으로 부터 추방당했다 그리하여 고향 아나돗으로 돌아갔었다(왕상02:26-27).

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Abiathar. [Abi'athar]

Son of Ahimelech the high priest. He escaped from the slaughter of the priests executed by Doeg at the command of Saul, 1 Sam. 22:18, 20. He became an adherent of David, and was acknowledged as high priest; but becoming involved in Adonijah's rebellion he was deprived of the priesthood by Solomon and sent to dwell in the city of Anathoth which belonged to the sons of Aaron. 

1 Kings 2:26; 1 Chr. 6:60. In 1 Kings 4:4, Abiathar is named with Zadok as priests (not the priests); though deposed, Abiathar was still a priest. There is a difficulty in 2 Sam. 8:17 and 1 Chr. 18:16 where 'Ahimelech (or Abimelech) the son of Abiathar' is named as priest with Zadok in the time of David. Some suppose that the names should be transposed, and that Abiathar is meant; but this Ahimelech may have been a son of the above-named Abiathar (it not being at all unusual to name a son after his grandfather) and for some reason he is mentioned in these passages as priest instead of his father. 

He may have been a more worthy man than his father, who was thrust out of the priesthood for his own sin, though it fulfilled the prophecy concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. 1 Sam. 2:31-36; 1 Kings 2:27. Our Lord in Mark 2:26 speaks of Abiathar as high priest, in connection with David eating the showbread, doubtless because he afterwards attained to that office.

--- Morrish Bible Dictionary