1 Samuel 22:17-19
footmen. or, guard. Heb. runners.8:11; 2Sa 15:1; 1Ki 1:5slay the priests.13; 20:33; 25:17; 1Ki 18:4would not.14:45; Ex 1:17; 2Ki 1:13,14; Ac 4:19 Doeg.9he fell.2Ch 24:21; Ho 5:11; 7:3; Mic 6:16; Zep 3:3; Ac 26:10,11fourscore.The LXX. read, [tria kosious kai pente andras,] "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. 2:30-33,36; 3:12-14a linen ephod.2:28; Ex 28:40 Nob.9,11; 21:1; Ne 11:32; Isa 10:32men.15:3,9; Jos 6:17,21; Ho 10:14; Jas 2:13with 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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