1 Samuel 22:18

Filipino Cebuano Bible

18 Ug ang hari miingon kang Doeg: Lumiso ka, ug dumasmag sa mga sacerdote. Ug si Doeg ang Edomhanon miliso, ug iyang gidasmagan ang mga sacerdote, ug siya nakapatay niadtong adlawa sa kawaloan ug lima ka tawo nga nagsaput sa ephod nga lino.

Bible Verse Review
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Doeg: 1 Samuel 22:9

he fell: 2 Chronicles 24:21, Hosea 5:11, Hosea 7:3, Micah 6:16, Zephaniah 3:3, Acts 26:10, Acts 26:11

fourscore: The LXX read, פסיבךןףיןץע ךבי נוםפו בםהסבע, "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. 1 Samuel 2:30-33, 1 Samuel 2:36, 1 Samuel 3:12-14

a linen ephod: 1 Samuel 2:28, Exodus 28:40

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:18 - a linen ephod 2 Samuel 1:10 - slew 2 Samuel 1:15 - Go near 2 Samuel 6:14 - girded 2 Samuel 13:28 - commanded 2 Samuel 13:29 - servants Ezra 3:10 - they set Psalms 10:8 - sitteth 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 Hosea 3:4 - ephod

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king said to Doeg, turn thou and fall upon the priests,.... For determined he was they should die; if one would not put them to death, another should, and who so fit for this bloody work as the false accuser of them, and false witness against them?

and Doeg the Edomite turned; immediately, he at once obeyed the king's orders, as brutish as they were:

and fell upon the priests; with his sword in hand:

and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod; not the ephod of Urim and Thummim, which was only worn by the high priest, but a garment wholly linen, worn by common priests; the Targum is,

"who are fit to be clothed with a linen ephod;''

not that they were clothed with it, but were deserving of it; or it designs the great and more honourable among the servants of the Lord, as Kimchi observes, for such were clothed with this garment, as Samuel and David; and he thinks it suggests, that more were slain than these; and the Septuagint version makes them to be eight hundred five, and Josephus h three hundred eighty five; in the slaying of whom, as the same writer says, Doeg was assisted by some wicked men like himself; and the slaughter did not end here, as the 1 Samuel 22:19 shows.

h Antiqu. l. 6. c. 12. sect. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We are not to suppose that Doeg killed them all with his own hand. He had a band of men under his command, many or all of whom were perhaps foreigners like himself, and very likely of a Bedouin caste, to whom bloodshed would be quite natural, and the priests of the Lord of no more account than so Early sheep or oxen.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 22:18. And Doeg-fell upon the priests — A ruthless Edomite, capable of any species of iniquity.

Fourscore and five persons — The Septuagint read τριακοσιους και πεντε ανδρας, three hundred and five men; and Josephus has three hundred and eighty-five men. Probably the eighty-five were priests; the three hundred, the families of the priests; three hundred and eighty-five being the whole population of Nob.

That did wear a linen ephod. — That is, persons who did actually administer, or had a right to administer, in sacred things. The linen ephod was the ordinary clothing of the priests.