Ahitub (father of Ahimelech)
아히둡 (아히멜렉의 아버지)
Named at 1 Samuel 22:9, in the words of Doeg the Edomite, as the father of Ahimelech: “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.” At 22:11–12 the king sends to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob, and Saul says, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub”; 22:20 says, “One of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.” This collection keeps him apart from the Ahitub of 14:3 and does not decide whether they are the same man.
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- 1SA 22:6–10, engwebp
6Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.
7Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds?
8Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
9Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
10He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
- 1SA 22:11–19, engwebp
11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.
12Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
13Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?
15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.”
16The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”
17The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of the LORD.
18The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
19He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
- 1SA 22:20–23, engwebp
20One of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
21Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the LORD’s priests.
22David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house.
23Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. You will be safe with me.”
AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-09-26
Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.
Unresolved interpretation: Ahitub of 1 Samuel 14:3 and Ahitub of 22:9–20
- 1 Samuel 14:3 names “Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod.” The Korean Revised Version makes Ahijah 비느하스의 손자, the grandson of Phinehas.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- 1SA 14:1–5, engwebp
1Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.
2Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men,
3including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.
4Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
5The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
- 1SA 14:1–5, engwebp
- 1 Samuel 22:9 has Doeg the Edomite say, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub”; at 22:11–12 the king sends to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob, and Saul says, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub”; 22:20 says that one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped. These verses do not name this Ahitub’s father.
Source evidence (3)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- 1SA 22:6–10, engwebp
6Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.
7Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds?
8Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
9Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
10He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
- 1SA 22:11–19, engwebp
11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.
12Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
13Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?
15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.”
16The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”
17The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of the LORD.
18The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
19He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
- 1SA 22:20–23, engwebp
20One of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
21Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the LORD’s priests.
22David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house.
23Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. You will be safe with me.”
- 1SA 22:6–10, engwebp
- 2 Samuel 8:17 says, “Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests”. The verse does not name this Ahitub’s father.
Source evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- 2SA 8:15–18, engwebp
15David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
16Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
17Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,
18Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief ministers.
- 2SA 8:15–18, engwebp
1 Samuel 14:3 names Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, as the father of Ahijah; 22:9–20 names Ahitub as the father of Ahimelech, the priest who was in Nob, without naming Ahitub’s father; and 2 Samuel 8:17 names Ahitub as the father of Zadok, one of the priests, without naming Ahitub’s father. The sons named in the three passages have different names (Ahijah, Ahimelech, Zadok), and the text does not say whether any two of the three Ahitubs are one man or two. This collection records the three apart and does not decide whether any of them are the same man.
All 1 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending
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Ahitub (father of Ahimelech) — Father of — Ahimelech (son of Ahitub)
Evidence: 1 Samuel 22:6–10, 1 Samuel 22:11–19, 1 Samuel 22:20–23
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Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.
Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
One of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Ahitub (father of Ahimelech) (person-ahitub-ahimelech) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/ahitub-ahimelech Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 22:9, in the words of Doeg the Edomite, as the father of Ahimelech: “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.” At 22:11–12 the king sends to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob, and Saul says, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub”; 22:20 says, “One of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.” This collection keeps him apart from the Ahitub of 14:3 and does not decide whether they are the same man. Cited evidence: 1SA 22:6–10, engwebp / 1SA 22:11–19, engwebp / 1SA 22:20–23, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.