¹⁷ So the king said to the runners who were stationed around him, “Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because they also support David^[a] and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not disclose it to me.”^[b] But the servants of the king were not willing to raise their hand to attack the priests of Yahweh. ¹⁸ Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and attack the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests himself, and on that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. ¹⁹ And he put to the sword^[c] Nob, the city of the priests, from man to woman, from child to infant, and ox and donkey and sheep;^[d] all to the sword.^[e]