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


In Context

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.|

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

18 The 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.

1 Samuel 22:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:16But the king said, "You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and your father's whole family."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:16And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:16And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and all thy father's house.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:16And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:16And the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:16And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:16And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:16And the king saith, 'Thou dost surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all the house of thy father.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:16And the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.