George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Samuel 22:9
Servants, or herdsmen, chap. xxi. 7. Septuagint, "the Syrian, who was set over the mules of Saul." (Haydock) --- Informers are a set of men destructive to the public," says Tacitius, Hist. i. 4.
Servants, or herdsmen, chap. xxi. 7. Septuagint, "the Syrian, who was set over the mules of Saul." (Haydock) --- Informers are a set of men destructive to the public," says Tacitius, Hist. i. 4.
Verse 1 Samuel 22:9. _DOEG THE EDOMITE, WHICH WAS SET OVER THE SERVANTS OF_ _SAUL_] In 1 Samuel 21:7 he is said to be _the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul_, and the _Septuagint_ intimat...
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. In the cave of Adullam (1 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. In Moab and Gad's message (1 Samuel 22:3) 3. Saul's discovery of David's visit to Nob (1 Samuel 22:6) 4. The murder of the priests ...
1 SAMUEL 22. DAVID AT ADULLAM AND MOAB: MASSACRE AT NOB (J). The series of narratives in ch. 22 may very well come from the same ancient document, and be the continuation of 1 Samuel 21:1. 1 SAMUEL 2...
THEN, &c.: verses: 1 Samuel 22:9, by the Figure of speech _Hysteresis_ (App-6), give details not contained in former narration (21. i-9)....
Saul's vengeance on the priests of Nob 6. _that David was discovered_ Lit. "was known." Saul found out that some of his courtiers knew of David's hiding-place in the forest of Hareth. _now Saul abode...
_Then answered Doeg_ The title of Psalms 52 states that it was composed by David in reference to this occasion. 1 Samuel 22:1 describe such a character as we may well suppose Doeg to have been. His to...
THEN ANSWERED DOEG—(_WHICH WAS SET OVER THE SERVANTS OF SAUL_)— _Who happened then to be with the servants of Saul._ Houbigant. See the foregoing chapter, 1 Samuel 22:7. It does not appear from the pr...
_Saul's Increasing Jealousy. 1 Samuel 22:6-16_ 6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that _were_ with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his...
_THEN ANSWERED DOEG THE EDOMITE, WHICH WAS SET OVER THE SERVANTS OF SAUL, AND SAID, I SAW THE SON OF JESSE COMING TO NOB, TO AHIMELECH THE SON OF AHITUB._ Doeg ... set over the servants - Septuagint,...
DAVID IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM. SAUL'S SLAUGHTER OF THE PRIESTS AT NOB 1. Adullam] probably in the valley of Elah between Philistia and Hebron....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 22 DAVID AT ADULLAM AND MIZPAH V1 David left Gath and went to a cave near Adullam. His brothers and his father’s family discovered where he h...
THEN ANSWERED DOEG THE EDOMITE. — This Doeg has already been mentioned in the preceding chapter. His presence in this council meeting under the tamarisk of Gibeah, among the famous Benjamito chieftain...
וַ יַּ֜עַן דֹּאֵ֣ג הָ אֲדֹמִ֗י וְ ה֛וּא
CHAPTER XXIX. _ DAVID AT ADULLAM, MIZPEH, AND HARETH._ 1 Samuel 22:1. THE cave of Adullam, to which David fled on leaving Gath, has been placed in various localities even in modern times; but as the...
CAPTAIN OF AN OUTLAWED BAND 1 Samuel 22:1 What a striking analogy there is between the gathering of these outlawed men to David, and the attraction of publicans and sinners, in all ages, to Christ! H...
Leaving Gath, David took refuge in the cave of Adullam, where there gathered to him a band of the outcasts of his own people. They are graphically described as those in "distress," in "debt," and "dis...
(9) Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. (10) And he enquired of the LORD for him, a...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
David now takes his place fully with the excellent of the earth (Hebrews 11:38). There the prophet Gad joins him; he is guided in a direct manner by the plain testimony of God, and soon after he is jo...
THEN ANSWERED DOEG THE EDOMITE,.... Josephus d calls him a Syrian, and so the Septuagint version; see 1 Samuel 21:7; being full of enmity to David, and willing to curry favour with Saul, and eager of...
_Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub._ Ver. 9. _Then answered Doeg._] So soon as ev...
1 Companies resort vnto Dauid at Adullam. 3 At Mizpeh he commendeth his parents vnto the King of Moab. 5 Admonished by Gad, hee commeth to Hareth. 6 Saul going to pursue him, complaineth of his ser...
Then answered Doeg, the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, 1 Samuel 21:7, AND SAID, I SAW THE SON OF JESSE COMING TO NOB, TO AHIMELECH, THE SON OF AHITUB....
SAUL TAKES REVENGE UPON THE PRIESTS OF NOB...
David wrotePsalms 34:1 at this time, which shows that he was truly restored to the Lord. Verse 4 of that Psalm is particularly significant, "I sought the Lord and He heard me, and delivered me from al...
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 o...
SEE POOLE ON "1 SAMUEL 21:7"....
1 Samuel 22:9 answered H6030 (H8799) Doeg H1673 Edomite H130 set H5324 (H8737) servants H5650 Saul H7586 said...
SAUL REVEALS HIS TRUE COLOURS (1 SAMUEL 22:6). While David was going through his period of refining, Saul was displaying his true colours. Unlike David he did not learn from his tribulations. He rath...
CONTENTS: David in rejection gathers mighty men. His wanderings and dangers. CHARACTERS: David, Saul, Gad, Ahimelech, Doeg, Abiathar. CONCLUSION: Those who give way to jealousy are in a continual ag...
1 Samuel 22:10. _He enquired of the Lord for him._ This was a lie, which Doeg invented to ingratiate himself with Saul: 1 Samuel 22:22; Psalms 52:3....
_And the prophet Gad said unto David._ A FRIEND AND A FOE I. The visit of Gad the seer. David had been brought very low through his own mistakes. God proved him in the hold. Then He sent to him. Whe...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 22:8 ALL OF YOU HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST ME. Saul does not trust in the Lord, and now he trusts no one else either, even his own servants. Doeg is called THE EDOMITE three time...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 22:6. “ABODE UNDER A TREE,” etc. Rather, _was sitting under a tamarisk tree upon the height_. (For Ramah see Notes on 1 Samuel 1:1.) “Oriental princes frequentl...
EXPOSITION COMMENCEMENT OF DAVID'S LIFE AS AN OUTLAW. 1 SAMUEL 22:1 THE CAVE ADULLAM. According to Josephus this was situated near a city of the same name ('Ant.,'...
And he went from there, and he escaped to the cave at Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard of it, they went down to him there. And every one that was in distress, and every...
1 Samuel 21:1; 1 Samuel 21:7; Ezekiel 22:9; Matthew 26:59; Prov