1 Samuel 22:18-19
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.
1 Samuel 22:1
David <01732> [David.]
cave <04631> [the cave.]
Adullam <05725> [Adullam.]
Adullam was a city of Judah; and, according to Eusebius, ten miles (Jerome says eleven) eastward from Eleutheropolis.
1 Samuel 21:11-13
servants <05650> [the servants.]
king <04428> [the king.]
thought <07760> [laid up.]
very <03966> [sore.]
altered <08138> [changed.]
making marks <08427> [scrabbled. or, made marks.]
1 Samuel 21:2
king <04428> [The king.]
The whole of this is a gross falsehood; and which was attended with the most fatal consequences. It is well known that from all antiquity it was held no crime to tell a lie in order to save life. Thus Diphilon [Hypo lambano to pseudas epi sotevea legomenon, ouden peripoieisthai duscheres.] "I hold it right to tell a lie for safety: nothing should be avoided to save life." A heathen may say or sing thus: but no Christian can act thus and save his soul, though he may save his life.
1 Samuel 1:9-12
very upset <05315 04751> [in bitterness of soul. Heb. bitter of soul.]
prayed <06419> [prayed.]
weeping uncontrollably <01058> [wept sore.]
<05087> [vowed.]
look <07200> [look.]
remembering <02142> [remember.]
child <0582 02233> [a man child. Heb. seed of men. I will give.]
Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite.
<04177> [there.]
praying <06419 07235> [continued praying. Heb. multiplied to pray.]
Proverbs 29:12
Micah 7:3
evil <07451> [do.]
government officials <08269> [the prince.]
prominent men <01419> [the great.]
demands <01942 05315> [his mischievous desire. Heb. the mischief of his soul. wrap.]
