1 Samuel 22:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And gave him the news of how Saul had put to death the Lord's priests.

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  • 1 Sam 22:16-20
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    16And the king said, You will certainly be put to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's family.

    17Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.

    18Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.

    19And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.

    20And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David;

  • 1 Sam 22:22-23
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    22And David said to Abiathar, I was certain that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would take the news to Saul: I am responsible for the lives of all your father's family.

    23Keep here with me and have no fear; for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.

  • 1 Kgs 2:26-27
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    26And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.

    27So Solomon let Abiathar be priest no longer, so that he might make the word of the Lord come true which he said about the sons of Eli in Shiloh.

  • 1 Sam 23:9-10
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    9And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.

    10Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.

  • 1 Sam 30:7
    77%

    7And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Come here to me with the ephod. And Abiathar took the ephod to David.

  • 1 Sam 22:8-14
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    77%

    8That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?

    9Then Doeg, the Edomite, who was by the side of the servants of Saul, in answer said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub.

    10And he got directions from the Lord for him, and gave him food, and put in his hand the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

    11Then the king sent for Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and for all the men of his father's family who were priests in Nob: and they all came to the king.

    12And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.

    13And Saul said to him, Why have you made designs against me with the son of Jesse, giving him food and a sword and getting directions from the Lord for him, and helping him to take up arms against me, and to be on the watch to make a secret attack on me as he is doing now?

    14Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?

  • 1 Sam 21:1-2
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    76%

    1Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?

    2And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has given me orders and has said to me, Say nothing to anyone about the business on which I am sending you and the orders I have given you: and a certain place has been fixed to which the young men are to go.

  • 1 Sam 23:6
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    6Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand.

  • 2 Sam 15:35
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    35And have you not there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? so whatever comes to your ears from the king's house, give word of it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

  • 2 Sam 8:17
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    17And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;

  • 2 Sam 1:14-17
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    14And David said to him, Had you no fear of stretching out your hand to put to death the one marked with the holy oil?

    15And David sent for one of his young men and said, Go near and put an end to him. And he put him to death.

    16And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.

    17Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    73%

    57And when David was coming back after the destruction of the Philistine, Abner took him to Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Chr 18:16
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    16And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;

  • 1 Kgs 2:35
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    35And the king put Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest he put in the place of Abiathar.

  • 2 Sam 20:25
    72%

    25And Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

  • 1 Chr 15:11
    72%

    11And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and Amminadab,

  • 2 Sam 19:11
    71%

    11And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?

  • 1 Sam 26:15-16
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    15And David said to Abner, Are you not a man of war? is there any other like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? for one of the people came in to put the king your lord to death.

    16What you have done is not good. By the living Lord, death is the right fate for you, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil. Now see, where is the king's spear, and the vessel of water which was by his head?

  • 1 Sam 24:10-11
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    10And David said to Saul, Why do you give any attention to those who say that it is my desire to do you wrong?

    11Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.

  • 2 Sam 11:22
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    22So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?

  • 2 Sam 17:15
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    15Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.

  • 1 Kgs 1:25
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    25Because today he has gone down and has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the king's sons to come to him, with the captains of the army and Abiathar the priest; and they are feasting before him and crying, Long life to King Adonijah!

  • 2 Sam 3:28
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    28And when David had word of it he said, May I and my kingdom be clear for ever in the eyes of the Lord from the blood of Abner, the son of Ner:

  • 1 Sam 21:7
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    7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.

  • 1 Sam 26:9-10
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    9And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?

    10And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.

  • 1 Sam 19:1
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    1And Saul gave orders to his son Jonathan and to all his servants to put David to death. But Saul's son Jonathan had great delight in David.

  • 2 Sam 1:4-5
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    4And David said to him, How did things go? Give me the news. And in answer he said, The people have gone in flight from the fight, and a great number of them are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.

    5And David said to the young man who gave him the news, Why are you certain that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?

  • 2 Sam 3:26
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    26And when Joab had come out from David, he sent men after Abner, and they overtook him at the water-spring of Sirah, and made him come back with them: but David had no knowledge of it.

  • 2 Sam 3:17
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    17Then Abner had a talk with the chief men of Israel, saying, In the past it was your desire to make David your king: so now, do it: