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18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and attack the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests himself, and on that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. 19 And he put to the sword[a] Nob, the city of the priests, from man to woman, from child to infant, and ox and donkey and sheep;[b] all to the sword.[c]

20 But, one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, whose name was Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 22:19 Literally “he killed with the mouth of the sword”
  2. 1 Samuel 22:19 Or “goats”; literally, “small livestock animals”
  3. 1 Samuel 22:19 Literally “with the mouth of the sword”