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Verse 1 Samuel 22:18. _AND DOEG-FELL UPON THE PRIESTS_] A ruthless
Edomite, capable of any species of iniquity.
_FOURSCORE AND FIVE PERSONS_] The Septuagint read
τριακοσιους και πεντε ανδρας, _three...
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We are not to suppose that Doeg killed them all with his own hand. He
had a band of men under his command, many or all of whom were perhaps
foreigners like himself, and very likely of a Bedouin caste,...
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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 ...
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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...
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SLEW. Thus partly fulfilling 1 Samuel 2:31; 1 Samuel 3:12, on Eli's
house.
PERSONS. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
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_that did wear a linen ephod_ See on 1 Samuel 2:18. The distinctive
priestly dress should have reminded Saul of the sacredness of their
persons....
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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...
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DOEG—SLEW ON THAT DAY FOURSCORE AND FIVE PERSONS— Josephus says,
that Doeg, taking to his assistance some men as wicked as himself,
slew, in all, _three hundred and eighty-five_ persons. The LXX says...
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_Saul's Slaughter of the Priests._ 1 Samuel 22:17-23
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 b...
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_AND THE KING SAID TO DOEG, TURN THOU, AND FALL UPON THE PRIESTS. AND
DOEG THE EDOMITE TURNED, AND HE FELL UPON THE PRIESTS, AND SLEW ON
THAT DAY FOURSCORE AND FIVE PERSONS THAT DID WEAR A LINEN EPHOD...
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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....
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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...
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AND DOEG THE EDOMITE... FELL UPON THE PRIESTS, AND SLEW ON THAT DAY
FOURSCORE AND FIVE PERSONS. — No doubt, assisted by his own attached
servants, Doeg carried out this deed of unexampled barbarity. F...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר הַ מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙
_לְ_†_דֹואֵ֔ג_† סֹ֣ב...
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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...
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THE SLAUGHTER OF DAVID'S FRIENDS
1 Samuel 22:11
The Apostle James says that “the tongue is set on fire of hell.”
Surely this was the case when Saul, encamped on the height above
Gibeah, scattered hi...
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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...
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_Five. Josephus read "385." Septuagint, "305." --- Ephod. They all
appeared in this dress, as they were priests. (Calmet) --- It was
different from the sacred ephod. (Abulensis) --- Thus the posterity...
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(16) And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and
all thy father's house. (17) And the king said unto the footmen that
stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; becaus...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE KING SAID TO DOEG, TURN THOU AND FALL UPON THE PRIESTS,....
For determined he was they should die; if one would not put them to
death, another should, and who so fit for this bloody work as th...
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And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And
Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on
that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod....
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_Doeg the Edomite turned and fell upon the priests_ The country of
Doeg is very properly here mentioned, and again repeated, to wipe off
the stain of this butchery from the Israelitish nation, and to...
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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...
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And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou and fall upon the priests. And
Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on
that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod,...
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SAUL TAKES REVENGE UPON THE PRIESTS OF NOB...
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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...
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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...
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TURN THOU; or, _go about_, to wit, from man to man, till thou hast
killed all. THE EDOMITE; which is noted to wipe off the stain of this
butchery from the Israelitish nation, and to show why he was so...
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‘ And the king said to Doeg, “Turn you, and fall on the
priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests,
and he slew on that day four score and five persons who wore a linen
ephod.'...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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.,'...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:28; 1 Samuel 2:30; 1 Samuel 2:36; 1 Samuel 22:9; 1 Sam
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The Edomite — This is noted to wipe off the stain of this butchery
from the Israelitish nation, and to shew, why he was so ready to do
it, because he was one of that nation which had an implacable hat...