# 1 Samuel 22

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-samuel/22

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

How it was made: https://www.lumin.faith/lumin-translation.md

1. David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father’s family heard about it, they went down to him there.
2. Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in spirit gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
3. From there David went to Mizpeh in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”
4. So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.
5. Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
6. Saul heard that David and the men with him had been discovered. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.
7. Saul said to his servants standing around him, “Listen, you Benjaminites! Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards? Will he make every one of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?
8. Is that why all of you have conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has stirred up my servant to lie in wait against me, as he is doing today.”
9. Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s servants, answered, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Nob, to Ahimelech son of Ahitub.
10. Ahimelech inquired of Yahweh for him and gave him provisions, and he gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11. Then the king sent for Ahimelech the priest, son of Ahitub, and all his father’s family, the priests who were at Nob, and they all came to the king.
12. Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
13. Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
14. Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David? He is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard, and honored in your house.
15. Was that the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let the king not accuse his servant or anyone in my father’s family, for your servant knew nothing at all about this, great or small.”
16. But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s family.”
17. Then the king said to the guards standing around him, “Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, and they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants were unwilling to lift a hand to strike down the priests of Yahweh.
18. Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
19. He also put Nob, the town of the priests, to the sword: men and women, children and infants, cattle, donkeys, and sheep, he put to the sword.
20. But one son of Ahimelech son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David.
21. Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of Yahweh.
22. David said to Abiathar, “That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of every person in your father’s family.
23. Stay with me; do not be afraid. The one who seeks my life seeks your life too. You will be safe with me.”

## Nearby chapters

[1 Samuel 21](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-samuel/21.md)
[1 Samuel 23](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-samuel/23.md)

Ask: https://www.lumin.faith/ask.md
Bible Coach: https://www.lumin.faith/bible-coach.md