Cross references

Mark 2:26

During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”

Mark 2:26 BSB
  1. a Or the Bread of the Presence

Mark 2:26 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Samuel 8:17 (6 votes) and Leviticus 24:5–9 (5 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Exodus 29 to John 9.

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  1. Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;

  2. You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf, and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD. …

  3. Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

  4. The scribe, Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king and of the officers: Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites—one family being taken from Eleazar, and then one from Ithamar.

  5. But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David. And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD. …

  6. Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.” So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.

  7. At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket. They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.

  8. (Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)

  9. When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”

  10. Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had passed out of the city.

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