1David dipped out to the cave Adullam, and when his fam heard, they pulled up to him.

2Everyone who was stressed, broke, or just over it, showed up to him; he became their leader with about four hundred guys.

3Then David bounced to Mizpeh of Moab and asked the king, "Can my parents chill with you until I figure out what God’s got planned for me?"

4He brought them to the king, and they stayed there while David was in hiding.

5The prophet Gad told David, "Don’t stay here; bounce to Judah." So David left and went to the forest of Hareth.

6When Saul found out David was spotted, he was chilling in Gibeah under a tree with his spear, and all his crew was around him.

7Saul said to his squad, "Yo, Benjamites, is the son of Jesse gonna hook you up with fields and vineyards, making you all captains?"

8"Y’all are plotting against me, and no one’s telling me that my son is tight with Jesse’s kid, and no one cares that my son stirred up trouble, like, for real?"

9Then Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul's crew, said, "I saw Jesse's son coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub."

10He asked God for him, hooked him up with food, and gave him Goliath's sword.

11Then the king called for Ahimelech the priest and all his fam, the priests in Nob, and they all came to him.

12Saul said, "Yo, son of Ahitub," and he replied, "Here I am, my dude."

13Saul asked him, "Why you plotting against me with Jesse’s kid, giving him bread and a sword, and asking God for him so he could rise up against me?"

14Ahimelech replied, "Who’s more loyal than David, your son-in-law, who does what you say and is straight-up honorable?"

15"Did I start asking God for him? Nah, let the king not blame me or my fam; I knew nothing about this."

16The king said, "You’re gonna die, Ahimelech, you and your whole fam."

17The king told his guards, "Turn and kill the priests of the Lord; they’re with David and knew he was running but didn’t tell me." But the king's crew wouldn’t touch the priests.

18The king said to Doeg, "You turn and take out the priests." So Doeg turned and killed the priests, slaying 85 who wore linen ephods that day.

19He wiped out Nob, the city of priests, with the sword, taking out men, women, kids, and livestock.

20One of Ahimelech's sons, Abiathar, escaped and ran after David.

21Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the Lord’s priests.

22David said to Abiathar, "I knew it when Doeg was there; I caused the death of your whole fam."

23"Stay with me, don’t be scared; anyone after my life is after yours too, but you’ll be safe with me."

1David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.

2And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

3And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.

4And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.

5And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

6When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)

7Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;

8That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

9Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

10And he enquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

12And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

13And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

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?

15Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.

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

17And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord.

18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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

21And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the Lord’s priests.

22And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.

23Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.