1 Samuel 22:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ The king said, “Ahimelech, you and all your relatives must die.” ¹⁷ Then he said to the guards standing near him, “Kill the Lord's priests! They conspired with David and did not tell me that he had run away, even though they knew it all along.” But the guards refused to lift a hand to kill the Lord's priests. ¹⁸ So Saul said to Doeg, “You kill them!”—and Doeg killed them all. On that day he killed eighty-five priests who were qualified to carry the ephod.