열왕기하 11:1의 미드라쉬

Our Rabbis were taught: For three persons did the earth (the road) shrink (they were miraculously transferred to their destination): For Eliezer, the servant of Abraham; for Jacob, our father, and for Abishai b. Zeruyah; for Abishai b. Zeruyah, as stated above; for Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, as it is written (Gen. 24, 42) And I came this day unto the well. This day means that he left on the same day; for Jacob, our father, (Ib. b) as it is written (Ib. 28, 10-11) And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went towards Haran. And he alighted (vayiphga) upon a certain place and tarried there all night, because the sun was set, etc. When he reached Haran he said: "Is it proper of me not to say prayer when I passed the place where my parents passed? He resolved to return, and soon after his resolution, the earth shrank and he came to Bethel. And whence do we know that David's children were destroyed? It is written (II Kings 11, 1) And when Athaliah the mother of Ahabiah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed. But did not Joash remain? There in the case of Nob also Abiathar remained, as it is written (I Sam. 22, 20) And there escaped one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub whose name was Abiathar. R. Juda, in the name of Rab, said: "Had not Abiathar remained of Ahimelech's family, nothing would have remained of David's family."