These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 22
Tanakh 23 verses
- 1 therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.
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And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became captain over them; and there were with him about four hundred men.
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- 3 And went thence to Mizpeh of ; and he said unto the of : ‘Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I what will do for me.’
- 4 And he brought them before the of ; and they dwelt with him all the while that was in the stronghold.
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And the said unto : ‘Abide not in the stronghold; depart, and get thee into the land of .’ Then departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
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And heard that was discovered, and the men that were with him; now was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk-tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
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- 7 And said unto his servants that stood about him: ‘Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds;
- 8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there was none that disclosed it to me when my son made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or discloseth unto me that my son hath stirred up my against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?’
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Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of , and said: ‘I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
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- 10 And he inquired of for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.’
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Then the sent to call Ahimelech the , the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nob; and they came all of them to the .
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And said: ‘Hear now, thou son of Ahitub.’ And he answered: ‘Here I am, my lord.’
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And said unto him: ‘Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?’
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- 14 Then Ahimelech answered the , and said: ‘And who among all thy servants is so trusted as , who is the king’s son-in-, and giveth heed unto thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?
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Have I to-day begun to inquire of for him? be it far from me; let not the impute any thing unto his , nor to all the house of my father; for thy knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.’
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- 16 And the said: ‘Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.’
- 17 And the said unto the guard that stood about him: ‘Turn, and slay the priests of ; because their hand also is with , and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me.’ But the servants of the would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of .
- 18 And the said to Doeg: ‘Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.’ And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
- 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
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And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after .
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- 21 And Abiathar told that had slain Yahweh’S priests.
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And said unto Abiathar: ‘I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell ; I have brought about the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.
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Abide thou with me, not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life; for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.’
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