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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Abiathar
     father of abundance, or my father excels, the son of Ahimelech
     the high priest. He was the tenth high priest, and the fourth in
     descent from Eli. When his father was slain with the priests of
     Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined
     David, who was then in the cave of Adullam (1 Sam. 22:20-23;


     23:6). He remained with David, and became priest of the party of
     which he was the leader (1 Sam. 30:7). When David ascended the
     throne of Judah, Abiathar was appointed high priest (1 Chr.
     15:11; 1 Kings 2:26) and the "king's companion" (1 Chr. 27:34).
     Meanwhile Zadok, of the house of Eleazar, had been made high
     priest. These appointments continued in force till the end of
     David's reign (1 Kings 4:4). Abiathar was deposed (the sole
     historical instance of the deposition of a high priest) and
     banished to his home at Anathoth by Solomon, because he took
     part in the attempt to raise Adonijah to the throne. The
     priesthood thus passed from the house of Ithamar (1 Sam.
     2:30-36; 1 Kings 1:19; 2:26, 27). Zadok now became sole high
     priest. In Mark 2:26, reference is made to an occurrence in "the
     days of Abiathar the high priest." But from 1 Sam. 22, we learn
     explicitly that this event took place when Ahimelech, the father
     of Abiathar, was high priest. The apparent discrepancy is
     satisfactorily explained by interpreting the words in Mark as
     referring to the life-time of Abiathar, and not to the term of
     his holding the office of high priest. It is not implied in Mark
     that he was actual high priest at the time referred to. Others,
     however, think that the loaves belonged to Abiathar, who was at
     that time (Lev. 24:9) a priest, and that he either himself gave
     them to David, or persuaded his father to give them.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Abiathar, excellent father; father of the remnant
  

















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