1 Samuel 22:9–19

⁹Then answered ^kDoeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to ^lNob, to Ahimelech the son of ^mAhitub: ¹⁰and he ⁿinquired of the Lord for him, and ^ogave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. ¹¹Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in ^lNob: and they came all of them to the king. ¹²And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord. ¹³And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread and a sword, and hast ⁿinquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, ^pto lie in wait, as at this day? ¹⁴Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house? ¹⁵Did I then begin to ⁿinquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more. ¹⁶And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house. ¹⁷And the king said unto 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 shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord. ¹⁸And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and ^qslew on that day fourscore and five persons that ^rdid wear a linen ephod. ¹⁹And ^lNob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, ^sboth men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.