1 Samuel 22:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷He told them:

Listen to me! You belong to the Benjamin tribe,^[a] so if that son of Jesse ever becomes king, he won't give you fields or vineyards. He won't make you officers in charge of thousands or hundreds as I have done. ⁸But you're all plotting against me! Not one of you told me that my own son Jonathan had made an agreement with him. Not one of you cared enough to tell me that Jonathan had helped one of my officers^[b] rebel. Now that son of Jesse is trying to ambush me.

⁹^(A) Doeg the Edomite was standing with the other officers and spoke up, “When I was in the town of Nob, I saw that son of Jesse. He was visiting the priest Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

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Footnotes

22.7 You … Benjamin tribe: David was from the Judah tribe and would have given special privileges to the people of his own tribe rather than to those of Benjamin.
22.7,8 son of Jesse … officers: That is, David. Saul avoids even saying David's name.