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What did he say when reproved for plucking the ears of corn on the Sabbath?
“Have ye never read what David did?... How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar, the high priest, and did eat the shew bread?” ([Mark ii, 25, 26].)
David did not do this “in the days of Abiathar,” but in the days of Ahimelech. “Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest.... So the priest gave him hallowed bread; for there was no bread there but the shew bread” ([1 Sam. xxi, 1, 6]).