22:14,15
Ahimelek had not conspired against Saul at all. David was actually a loyal servant of both Saul and Israel. He was also the king’s son-in-law. Ahimelek had no cause at all to think of David as a renegade. Indeed Ahimelek had inquired of the Lord for David on previous occasions. This may have been part of the reason why David went to Nob in the first place. Ahimelek had acted in all innocence.
22:16,17
However, paranoid despots never see sense, and Saul was no exception. So Saul declares that Ahimelek and all his family will die. In fact he then extends it to all the priests of the Lord, commanding his guards to kill them all. Death is always the fruit of paranoid tyrants. He believes that all the priests knew that David was fleeing and deliberately failed to tell Saul. However, the guards had more regard for the priests than Saul did, and were not willing to kill the priests.
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