1 Samuel 22:22

Contextual Overview

²⁰However, one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David. ²⁰ One of the sons of Achimelekh, the son of Achituv, named Avyatar, escaped, and fled after David. ²⁰ And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. ²⁰ But, one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, whose name was Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. ²⁰ But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. ²⁰ But Abiathar, a son of Ahimelech, who was the son of Ahitub, escaped. He ran away and joined David. ²⁰ But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar. ²⁰But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to David. ²⁰ But one son of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to David. ²⁰ But one of the sonnes of Ahimelech the sonne of Ahitub (whose name was Abiathar) escaped and fled after Dauid.

Bible Verse Review
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I have occasioned: 1 Samuel 21:1-9, Psalms 44:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:31 - servants shall 1 Samuel 21:2 - The king 1 Samuel 27:11 - Lest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David said unto Abiathar, I knew [it] that day,.... That is, he thought in his mind at that time:

when Doeg the Edomite [was] there; at Nob; in the tabernacle, at the same time that David was there:

that he would surely tell Saul; that he saw David there, and what passed between him and Ahimelech; he knew he was a spiteful mischievous man; that he was a true Edomite, though a proselyte, and bore hatred and enmity in his mind against an Israelite, and especially an Israelite indeed, as David was:

I have occasioned [the death] of all the persons of thy father's house: or have been the cause of all the evils that befell them, and the death they were put unto, not with design, but by accident; and it grieved him that he should be any ways an accessory thereunto, though without intention.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 22:22. I knew it that day — When I saw Doeg there, I suspected he would make the matter known to Saul.

I have occasioned the death of all the persons — I have been the innocent cause of their destruction.