Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, Why are you alone, and no man with you?
"Ahimelech was the son of Ahitub, either a brother of Ahijah, or Ahijah himself.  Ahitub was a brother of Ichabod, making Ahimelech a great grandson of Eli."[3]  "Ahimelech and Ahijah are probably equivalent names of the same person."[4]