1 Samuel 22:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the LORD'S priests.

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    16 And the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.

    17 And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to attack the priests of the LORD.

    18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and attack the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five persons that wore a linen ephod.

    19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, and oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

    20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

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    22 And David said to Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have caused the death of all the persons of your father's house.

    23 Stay with me, fear not: for he that seeks my life seeks your life: but with me you shall be safe.

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    26 And to Abiathar the priest, the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are deserving of death, but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because you have been afflicted in all that my father was afflicted.

    27 So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, that he might fulfill the word of the Lord which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.

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    9 And David knew that Saul secretly planned mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.

    10 Then David said, O LORD God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray you, bring me here the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

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    8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that shows me that my son has made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

    9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

    10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

    11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they all came to the king.

    12 And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

    13 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

    14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?

  • 1 Sam 21:1-2
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    1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David and said to him, Why are you alone, and no man with you?

    2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a matter, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.

  • 6 And it happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

  • 35 And do you not have there with you Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you hear out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

  • 17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;

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    14 And David said to him, How are you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

    15 And David called one of the young men and said, Go near, and strike him. And he smote him that he died.

    16 And David said to him, Your blood be upon your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

    17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

  • 57 When David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe.

  • 35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and Zadok the priest the king put in the place of Abiathar.

  • 25 Sheva was the secretary; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

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

  • 11 And King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, even to his house.

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    15 And David said to Abner, "Are you not a valiant man? And who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For there came one of the people in to destroy the king your lord."

    16 This thing you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you are deserving of death because you have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

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    10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some urged me to kill you: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

    11 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the edge of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the edge of your robe and killed you not, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunt my soul to take it.

  • 22 So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him.

  • 15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I advised.

  • 25 For he has gone down this day and has sacrificed oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, Long live King Adonijah.

  • 28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

  • 7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chief of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul.

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    9 And David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"

    10 David said furthermore, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish."

  • 1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

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    4 And David said to him, How did the matter go? Please, tell me. And he answered, The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people are also fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead as well.

    5 And David said to the young man who told him, How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

  • 26 And when Joab had gone out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.

  • 17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, You sought for David in times past to be king over you.