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1 Samuel 22:16
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But the king replied, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
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And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
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The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”
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And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
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1 Samuel 22
14 Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard and honored in your house?
15 Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
16 But the king replied, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
17 Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
18 So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
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