1David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

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Psalms 57:1, Psalms 57:11, Psalms 57:1, Psalms 57:11, 1 Chronicles 11:15

2Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

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1 Samuel 30:22, 1 Samuel 30:24, Matthew 11:28, 1 Samuel 30:22, 1 Samuel 30:24

3David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."

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1 Samuel 14:47, 2 Samuel 15:25, 2 Samuel 15:26, 1 Samuel 3:18, Philippians 2:23

4He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.

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Psalms 11:1, Psalms 11:1, 1 Chronicles 29:29, 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Chronicles 12:16

5The prophet Gad said to David, "Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

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1 Chronicles 21:9, 2 Chronicles 29:25, 1 Chronicles 29:29, 1 Chronicles 21:9, 2 Chronicles 29:25

6Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul 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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1 Samuel 20:33, 1 Samuel 19:9, 1 Samuel 18:10, Genesis 21:33, Judges 4:5

7Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

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1 Samuel 8:14, 1 Samuel 8:15, 1 Kings 12:16, 1 Samuel 8:14, 1 Samuel 8:15

8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

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1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 23:21, 1 Samuel 23:21, 1 Samuel 20:42

9Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

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Psalms 52:1, Psalms 52:9, Psalms 52:1, Psalms 52:9, Proverbs 29:12

10He inquired of the Lord for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

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Numbers 27:21, Numbers 27:21, 1 Samuel 30:8, 1 Samuel 23:4, 1 Samuel 23:2

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

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Romans 3:15, Romans 3:15

12Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

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Isaiah 65:1, 1 Samuel 22:7, 2 Samuel 9:6, 1 Samuel 22:13, Isaiah 65:1

13Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

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1 Samuel 22:8, 1 Samuel 22:8, Luke 23:2, Luke 23:5, Psalms 119:69

14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

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1 Samuel 19:4, 1 Samuel 19:5, 1 Samuel 20:32, 1 Samuel 19:4, 1 Samuel 19:5

15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Do not let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more."

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1 Samuel 25:36, 1 Peter 3:16, 1 Peter 3:17, 1 Samuel 25:36, 1 Peter 3:16

16The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."

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Proverbs 28:15, Proverbs 28:15, 1 Samuel 20:31, 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 19:2

17The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of the Lord.

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Exodus 1:17, Exodus 1:17, 1 Samuel 14:45, 1 Samuel 14:45, 2 Kings 1:13

18The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

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Acts 26:10, Acts 26:11, Acts 26:10, Acts 26:11, 1 Samuel 2:18

19He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:3, Isaiah 10:32, Nehemiah 11:32, 1 Samuel 15:9

20One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

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1 Samuel 23:6, 1 Samuel 23:6, 1 Samuel 30:7, 1 Samuel 30:7, 1 Kings 2:26

21Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the Lord's priests.

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22David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father's house.

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1 Samuel 21:1, 1 Samuel 21:9, 1 Samuel 21:1, 1 Samuel 21:9, Psalms 44:22

23Stay with me, do not be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard."

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Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:3, 1 Kings 2:26, John 10:28, John 10:30