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And the kingsaid to the guards who were attending him, "Turnaround and put the priests of the LORD to death, because their handalso is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal* it to me." But the servants of the king were not willing to putforth their hands to attack the priests of the LORD.
18
Then the kingsaid to Doeg, "You turnaround and attack the priests." And Doeg the Edomiteturnedaround and attacked the priests, and he killed that dayeighty-fivemen who wore the linenephod.
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And he struckNob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, bothmen and women, children and infants; also oxen, donkeys, and sheep he struck with the edge of the sword.