1 Samuel 22:17-19

Common English Bible

¹⁷ The king ordered the guards waiting on him: “Go ahead and kill the Lord’s priests because they’ve joined up with David too. They knew he was on the run but didn’t inform me.”

But the king’s servants were unwilling to lift a hand to attack the Lord’s priests.

¹⁸ The king then ordered Doeg, “Doeg! You go attack the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite went and attacked the priests, killing eighty-five men who wore the linen priestly vest^[a] that day. ¹⁹ He put the whole priestly city of Nob to the sword: men and women, children and infants, even oxen, donkeys, and sheep.