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1 Samuel 22:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.” "

1 Samuel 22:16

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14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?

15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.”

16 The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”

17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of the LORD.

18 The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

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"David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him."

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