1 Samuel 22 · Verse 16

1 Samuel 22:16

And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
1 Samuel 22:16, King James Version

1 Samuel 22:16 in other translations

BSBBut the king replied, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
WEBThe king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”
ASVAnd the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
YLTAnd the king saith, ‘Thou dost surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all the house of thy father.'
DARBYAnd the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
BBEAnd the king said, You will certainly be put to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's family.
WebsterAnd the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

What does 1 Samuel 22:16 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 22:6-19

See the nature of jealous malice and its pitiful arts. Saul looks upon all about him as his enemies, because they do not just say as he says. In Ahimelech's answer to Saul we have the language of conscious innocence. But what wickedness will not the evil spirit hurry men to when he gets the dominion! Saul alleges that which was utterly false and unproved. But the most bloody tyrants have found instruments of their…

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1 Samuel 22:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
מ֥וֹתMotcertainly <to die>H4191
תָּמ֖וּתta.Mutyou will dieH4191
אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ'a.chi.Me.lekhO AhimelechH288
אַתָּ֖ה'a.TahyouH859
וְכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
בֵּ֥יתbeit[the] house ofH1004
אָבִֽיךָ\׃'a.Vi.khafather yourH1

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Cross references for 1 Samuel 22:16

  • Proverbs 28:15

    As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

  • Acts 12:19

    And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.

  • 1 Samuel 20:31

    For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

  • 1 Kings 19:2

    Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.

  • 1 Samuel 14:44

    And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.

  • 1 Kings 18:4

    For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

  • Daniel 2:5

    The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

  • Matthew 2:16

    Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

  • Daniel 3:19-20

    Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

  • Esther 3:6

    And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

  • Deuteronomy 24:16

    The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Daniel 2:12

    For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

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Thou shalt.
14:44; 20:31; 1Ki 18:4; 19:2; Pr 28:15; Da 2:5,12; 3:19,20; Ac 12:19
thou, and.
De 24:16; Es 3:6; Mt 2:16

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Context

  • 1 Samuel 22:15

    Did 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.

  • 1 Samuel 22:16

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

  • 1 Samuel 22:17

    And 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.

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1 Samuel 22:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y el rey dijo: Sin duda morirás, Ahimelech, tú y toda la casa de tu padre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et le roi lui dit: Certainement tu mourras, Akhimélec, toi et toute la maison de ton père.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Aber der König sprach: Du mußt gewißlich sterben Ahimelech, du und das ganze Haus deines Vaters!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Dixitque rex: Morte morieris Achimelech, tu et omnis domus patris tui.