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18 So the king said to Doeg, “You turn around and attack the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and [a]attacked the priests, and that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the [priest’s] linen ephod. 19 And he struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; also he struck oxen and donkeys and sheep with the edge of the sword.

20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to David.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 22:18 This act of violence fulfilled the prophecy regarding the house of Eli (see 2:31).

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