Devine Scripture

Mark 2:26

Mark chapter 2 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?

Context

v.25And he said unto them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?

v.26This passage

v.27And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 22:20

    And one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

  • 2 Samuel 20:25

    and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

  • 1 Kings 2:26

    And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:6

    And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

  • 1 Samuel 21:1

    Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

  • 1 Kings 1:7

    And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.