20One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.


In Context

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.

19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

21 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests.

22 David said to Abiathar, |I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father's house.

1 Samuel 22:20 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:20But Abiathar, a son of Ahimelech son of Ahitub, escaped and fled to join David.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:20And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:20But one of the sons of Achimelech the son of Achitob, whose name was Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:20And one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:20And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:20And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:20And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:20And there escapeth one son of Ahimelech, son of Ahitub, and his name is Abiathar, and he fleeth after David,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:20And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.