1 Samuel 22:16 - Revised Version 1885

¹⁶ And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ [Saul] said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But the king said, “You will be executed, Ahimelech—you and all of your father’s household!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And the king said, "You shall die a death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house!"

1 Samuel 22:16 Cross References

1 Kings 18:4

for it was so, when Jezebel cut off prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

Esther 3:6

But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

Proverbs 28:15

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Daniel 2:12

For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2:5

The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had carefully learned of the wise men.

Acts 12:19

And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and tarried there.

Deuteronomy 24:16

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

1 Samuel 14:44

And Saul said, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.

1 Samuel 20:31

For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be stablished, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

1 Samuel 22:15

Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.

1 Samuel 22:17

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