1 Samuel 22:17-19
footmen or, guard, Heb. runners, 1Sam 8:11; 2Sam 15:1; 1Kgs 1:5 slay the priests 1Sam 22:13, 1Sam 20:33, 1Sam 25:17; 1Kgs 18:4 would not 1Sam 14:45; Exod 1:17; 2Kgs 1:13-14; Acts 4:19 Doeg 1Sam 22:9 he fell 2Chr 24:21; Hos 5:11, Hos 7:3; Mic 6:16; Zeph 3:3; Acts 26:10-11 fourscore The LXX read, τριακοσιους και πεντε ανδρας, "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. 1Sam 2:30-33, 1Sam 2:36, 1Sam 3:12-14 a linen ephod 1Sam 2:28; Exod 28:40 Nob 1Sam 22:9, 1Sam 22:11, 1Sam 21:1; Neh 11:32; Isa 10:32 men 1Sam 15:3, 1Sam 15:9; Josh 6:17, Josh 6:21; Hos 10:14; Jas 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.
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