1 Samuel 22:6-18

6Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now 1Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him. 7Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, O Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? 2Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? 8For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who 3discloses to me 4when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you 5who is sorry for me or 6discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day.” 9Then 7Doeg the Edomite, who was 8standing by the servants of Saul, said, “9I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to 10Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 1011He inquired of the Lord for him, 12gave him provisions, and 13gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

11Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king. 12Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” And he 14answered, “Here I am, my lord.” 13Saul then said to him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he would rise up against me 15by lying in ambush as it is this day?”

1416Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king’s son-in-law, who 17is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house? 15Did I just begin 18to inquire of God for him today? Far be it from me! 19Do not let the king impute anything to his servant or to any of the household of my father, for your servant knows nothing 20at all of this whole affair.” 16But the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s household!” 17And 21the king said to the 22guards who were attending him, “Turn around and put the priests of the Lord to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not 23reveal it to me.” But the 24servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to 25attack the priests of the Lord. 18Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn around and 26attack the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and 27attacked the priests, and 28he killed that day eighty-five men 29who wore the linen ephod.