1 Samuel 22:16
What does 1 Samuel 22:16 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Samuel 22:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the king said, You will certainly be put to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's family.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the king saith, `Thou dost surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all the house of thy father.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and all thy father's house.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
Context
v.15Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute anything unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.
v.16This passage
v.17And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; 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 Jehovah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 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 Judæa to Cæsarea, 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 Kings 18:4
for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a 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 to-morrow about this time.
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