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1 Samuel 22:16

The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”

1 Samuel 22:16 WEB

1 Samuel 22:16 in the King James Version

And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.

Context

15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.”

16 The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”

17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of the LORD.

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