1 Samuel 22:18 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Samuel 22:18

16 And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all ^ayour father’s house!”

17 Then the king said to the guards who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me.” But the servants of the king ^awould not lift their hands to strike the priests of the Lord.

18 And the king said to Doeg, “You turn and kill the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck the priests, and ^akilled on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod.

19 ^aAlso Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep—with the edge of the sword.

20 ^aNow one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, ^bescaped and fled after David.

21 And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the Lord’s priests.

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SAUL COMMANDS TO KILL THE PRIESTS. (I Samuel 22:17-19)

the footmen that stood about him—his bodyguard, or his runners (I Samuel 8:11; II Samuel 15:1; I Kings 1:5; I Kings 14:28), who held an important place at court (II Chronicles 12:10). But they chose rather to disobey the king than to offend God by imbruing their hands in the blood of his ministering servants. A foreigner alone (Psalms 52:1-3) could be found willing to be the executioner of this bloody and sacrilegious sentence. Thus was the doom of the house of Eli fulfilled [I Samuel 2:30-36].

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