1 Samuel 22:17-19
messengers <07323> [footmen. or, guard. Heb. runners.]
kill ... priests ............................... priests <03548 04191> [slay the priests.]
refused ... harm <014 07971> [would not.]
Doeg .......... Doeg <01673> [Doeg.]
strike ........... struck down <06293> [he fell.]
eighty-five <08084> [fourscore.]
The LXX. read, [tria kosious kai pente andras,] "three hundred and five men;" and Josephus, "three hundred and eighty-five men." Probably the eighty-five were priests and the three hundred the families of the priests; three hundred and eighty-five being the whole population of Nob.
linen ephod <0906 0646> [a linen ephod.]
Nob <05011> [Nob.]
men <0376> [men.]
<06310> [with the edge.]
This is one of the worst acts of Saul's life: his malice was implacable, and his wrath cruel; and there is no motive of justice or policy by which such a barbarous massacre can be justified.
Proverbs 29:12
Isaiah 32:7
methods <03627> [instruments.]
<03289> [deviseth.]
lies <08267> [lying.]
needy ..... right <01696 04941 034> [the needy speaketh right. or, he speaketh against the poor in judgment.]
Matthew 2:16
saw <1492> [when.]
<3029> [was exceeding.]
to kill <337> [and slew.]
according <2596> [according.]
Luke 22:63-64
men <435> [the men.]
began to mock <1702> [mocked.]
blindfolded <4028> [blindfolded.]
