He also had made an agreement with Joab and with Abiathar the priest to help him.
Nor would his chief supporters, Joab and Abiathar, have assisted him in such an attempt.
Zadok bowed before David; and Abiathar was deposed from the priesthood by Solomon.
Abiathar had been chief priest for all the forty years of David's reign.
However, they were encouraged by the oracular words of Abiathar, the priest, and permitted themselves to be appeased.
