¹⁹ And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; ^(A)both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.

³ Now go and strike Amalek and ^(A)devote to destruction^[a] all that they have. Do not spare them, ^(B)but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

¹³ For ^(A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

³² Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

¹¹ Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.

⁹ Then answered ^(A)Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse ^(B)coming to Nob, to ^(C)Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,

David and the Holy Bread

21 ^[a] Then David came to ^(A)Nob, to ^(B)Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech ^(C)came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”

^9 (A)But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves^[a] and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.