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?


In Context

11 Then 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.

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

13 Saul 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?|

14 Then 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?

15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don't 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.|

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

1 Samuel 22:14 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:14Ahimelech answered the king, "Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king's son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household?

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who [is so] faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:14And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son in law, and goeth forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:14And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and has access to thy secret council, and is honourable in thy house?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, which is the king's son in law, and is taken into thy council, and is honourable in thine house?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honorable in thy house?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:14And Ahimelech answereth the king and saith, 'And who among all thy servants is as David — faithful, and son-in-law of the king, and hath turned aside unto thy council, and is honoured in thy house?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?