Forsooth David came into Nob to Ahimelech, the priest; and Ahimelech wondered, for David had come; and he said to David, Why art thou alone, and no man is with thee?
And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded to me a word, and said, No man know this thing, for which thou art sent from me, and what manner behests I have given to thee; for I said also to my children, that they should go into that and that place;
Forsooth he smote Nob, the city of the priests, by the sharpness of sword, men and women, little children and those sucking, and ox, and ass, and sheep, by the sharpness of sword.