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1 Samuel 22:16-18
GOD’S WORD Translation
1 Samuel 22:16-18
GOD’S WORD Translation
16 Saul said, “Ahimelech, you and your entire family are going to die.”
17 “Turn and kill the Lord’s priests because they support David,” the king said to the runners standing around him. “When they knew David was fleeing, they didn’t inform me.” But the king’s men refused to attack the Lord’s priests.
18 So the king said to Doeg, “You turn and attack the priests.” Doeg from Edom turned and attacked the priests, and that day he killed 85 men wearing the linen priestly ephod.[a]
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- 22:18 Ephod is a technical term for a part of the priest’s clothes. Its exact usage and shape are unknown.
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