1 Samuel 22:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 2 And David said to Abiathar: I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there, that without doubt he would tell Saul: I have been the occasion of the death of all the souls of thy father's house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And the king said to the guard that stood about him, Turn and slay the Lord's priests, 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 would not put forth their hands against the Lord's priests.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; 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 would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ The king ordered the guards waiting on him: “Go ahead and kill the LORD’s priests because they’ve joined up with David too. They knew he was on the run but didn’t inform me.” But the king’s servants were unwilling to lift a hand to attack the LORD’s priests.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And the king said to the emissaries who were standing around him: "You shall turn, and put to death the priests of the Lord. For their hand is with David. They knew that he had fled, and they did not reveal it to me." But the servants of the king were not willing to extend their hands against the priests of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord. For their hand is with David: because they knew that he was fled; and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 22:17 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:1

And this he did to all Israel that came for judgment, to be heard by the king, and he enticed the hearts of the men of Israel.

1 Kings 1:5

0 But Nathan the prophet, and Banaias, and all the valiant men, and Solomon his brother, he invited not.

1 Kings 14:27

Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.

1 Kings 18:4

And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me thy servant into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?

2 Kings 10:25

0 And the Lord said to Jehu: Because thou hast diligently executed that which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the house of Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth Generation.

Exodus 1:17

9 They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.

Acts 4:19

7 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

1 Samuel 14:45

0 And the name of Saul's wife, was Achinoam the daughter of Achimaas; and the name of the captain of his army was Abner, the son of Ner, the cousin german of Saul.

1 Samuel 2:31

6 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy house, shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of silver, and a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I beseech thee, to somewhat of the priestly office, that I may eat a morsel of bread.

1 Samuel 20:33

8 And Jonathan cried again after the boy, saying: Make haste speedily, stand not. And Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and brought them to his master:

1 Samuel 22:13

8 And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell upon the priests and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22:16

1 And told him that Saul had slain the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 25:17

2 May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall.

1 Samuel 8:11

6 Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.