Sinai1 Samuel 22:16
American Standard Version
And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
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1 Samuel 22:16 in other translations
The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”
1 Samuel 22:16 in context
- 14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house?
- 15Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute anything unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.
- 16And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
- 17And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.
- 18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.