1 Samuel 22:19

Lutherbibel

Und die Stadt der Priester, Nobe, schlug er mit der Schärfe des Schwerts, Mann und Weib, Kinder und Säuglinge, Ochsen und Esel und Schafe.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und Nob, die Stadt der Priester, schlug er mit der Schärfe des Schwertes, Männer und Weiber, Kinder und Säuglinge, auch Ochsen, Esel und Schafe, mit der Schärfe des Schwertes.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und Nob, die Stadt der Priester, schlug er mit der Schärfe des Schwertes, vom Manne bis zum Weibe, vom Kinde bis zum Säugling, und Rind und Esel und Kleinvieh, mit der Schärfe des Schwertes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Nob: 1 Samuel 22:9, 1 Samuel 22:11, 1 Samuel 21:1, Nehemiah 11:32, Isaiah 10:32

men: 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:9, Joshua 6:17, Joshua 6:21, Hosea 10:14, James 2:13

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.

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:10 - destroy the city 2 Samuel 13:29 - servants Esther 3:13 - both young Psalms 26:9 - bloody men Psalms 52:4 - devouring Psalms 78:64 - priests Psalms 141:7 - bones Proverbs 24:15 - Lay Proverbs 27:3 - but Ecclesiastes 7:15 - there is a just Jeremiah 44:7 - child

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword,.... Either Doeg or Saul; who, as Josephus i says, sent men thither to slay all the inhabitants of it:

both men and women, children and sucklings; not sparing sex nor age:

and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword; Saul, who was so tender hearted and merciful in the case of the Amalekites, when his orders from the Lord were utterly to destroy them, 1 Samuel 15:2, that he spared their king, and the best of their cattle, 1 Samuel 15:7; yet now so cruel to a city of the priests, as to destroy all the inhabitants of it, and cattle in it; and yet this bloody affair of Saul's is not taken notice of afterwards, only his slaughter of the Gibeonites, 2 Samuel 21:1; and Abarbinel is of opinion, that the inhabitants of this place were Gibeonites, who were hewers of wood, and drawers of water, to the house of the Lord here, Joshua 9:23. Now Saul was the more severe this city, to deter others from joining with David, who, if they did, must expect the same treatment.

i Antiqu. l. 6. c. 12. sect. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Both men and women ... - The language employed in the case of the Amalekites 1 Samuel 15:3 and of Jericho Joshua 6:21. Nothing could be more truculent than Saul’s revenge.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 22:19. And Nob - smote he with the edge of the sword — This is one of the worst acts in the life of Saul; his malice was implacable, and his wrath was cruel, and there is no motive of justice or policy by which such a barbarous act can be justified.