1 Samuel 22:16
Good News Translation
The king said, "Ahimelech, you and all your relatives must die."

New Revised Standard Version
The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”

Contemporary English Version
"Ahimelech," Saul said, "you and your whole family are going to die."

New American Bible
But the king said, “You shall certainly die, Ahimelech, with all your family.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and all thy father's house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and all thy father's house.

Thou shalt

1 Samuel 14:44 And Saul said: May God do so and so to me, and add still more: for dying thou shalt die, O Jonathan.

1 Samuel 20:31 For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and fetch him to me: for he is the son of death.

1 Kings 18:4 For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.

1 Kings 19:2 And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.

Proverbs 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people.

Daniel 2:5,12 And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated. . . .

Daniel 3:19,20 Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with fury: and the countenance of his face was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more than it had been accustomed to be heated. . . .

Acts 12:19 And when Herod had sought for him and found him not, having examined the keepers, he commanded they should be put to death. And going down from Judea to Caesarea, he abode there.

thou, and

Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,

Esther 3:6 And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus.

Matthew 2:16 Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Context
Saul Slays the Priests of Nob
15Did I begin to day to consult the Lord for him? far be this from me: let not the king suspect such a thing against his servant, or any one in all my father's house: for thy servant knew nothing of this matter, either little or great. 16And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and all thy father's house.17And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:15
Did I begin to day to consult the Lord for him? far be this from me: let not the king suspect such a thing against his servant, or any one in all my father's house: for thy servant knew nothing of this matter, either little or great.

1 Samuel 22:17
And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 22:15
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