1 Samuel 22:7-19

7Saul said to his servants who were standing in front of him, “Hear now, you Benjaminites! Will the son of Jesse really give all of you fields and vineyards? 1Will 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 2informs me 3when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you 4who cares about me or 5informs me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day.” 9Then 6Doeg the Edomite, who was 7standing in front of the servants of Saul, responded and said, “8I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to 9Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10And 10he inquired of the Lord for him, 11gave him provisions, and 12gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

11Then the king sent a messenger 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 13replied, “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 14by lying in ambush as it is this day?”

1415Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s own son-in-law, who 16is commander over your bodyguard, and is honored in your house? 15Did I just begin 17to inquire of God for him today? Far be it from me! 18Do not let the king impute anything against his servant or against any of the household of my father, because your servant knows nothing 19at all of this whole affair.” 16But the king said, “You shall certainly die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s household!” 17And 20the king said to the 21guards 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 22inform me.” But the 23servants of the king were unwilling to reach out with their hands to 24attack the priests of the Lord. 18Then the king said to Doeg, “You, turn around and 25attack the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and 26attacked the priests, and 27he killed on that day eighty-five men 28who wore the linen ephod. 1929He also struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; he also struck oxen, donkeys, and sheep with the edge of the sword.