1 Samuel 22:16-20
1 Samuel 22:16
But the king said, “You shall certainly die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s household!”
1 Samuel 22:17
And the king said to the guards 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 inform me.” But the servants of the king were unwilling to reach out with their hands to attack the priests of the Lord.
1 Samuel 22:18
Then the king said to Doeg, “You, turn around and attack the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19
He 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.
1 Samuel 22:20
But one son of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to David.