One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
"I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house"  (1 Samuel 22:22).  It would have been far better for David to have told Ahimelech the truth and to have left the results to the Lord.  As it turned out, all those murders were directly due to David's lies.  In the words here, David regretfully admitted it.  The conversation here recorded  (1 Samuel 22:21-23) between David and Abiathar, "Belongs chronologically after  1 Samuel 23:6."[8]  David and Abiathar were not together until they met in Keilah.