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18 The king said to Doeg, “You turn and fall upon the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck the priests and killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword. Both men and women, children and babies, oxen, donkeys, and sheep, he struck with the edge of the sword.

David, Protector of the Priestly Line

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

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