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1 Samuel 21:7

King James Version (KJV)

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Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.

1 Samuel 21:7 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Samuel 21:7

Theological / Devotional

Doeg, an Edomite. Probably one of the hostages or slaves brought back from Saul’s war against Edom (chapter 14:47).

Detained. Doeg had embraced the Hebrew religion and was at the tabernacle paying his vows (PP 656). The circumstances of these vows are not known. Evidently he had committed some trespass which merited the rebuke of Ahimelech, for this action of the priest was one of the primary reasons why Doeg later turned informer against Ahimelech (PP 659).

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