1 Samuel 22:16-18

New King James Version

¹⁶ And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all ^(A)your father’s house!” ¹⁷ Then the king said to the guards who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me.” But the servants of the king ^(B)would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the Lord. ¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, “You turn and kill the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and ^[a]struck the priests, and ^(C)killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod.