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Encyclopedia > Doeg the Edomite

Doeg, Chief herdsman to King Saul. Saul or Shaul (שָׁאוּל Demanded, Standard Hebrew Šaʾul, Tiberian Hebrew Šāʾûl) was the first king of Israel according to the Old Testament of the Bible, as taught in Judaism. ...


This is the incident where David has fled from Saul's jealous anger, to the High Priest Ahimelech, where David and his men are fed with the showbread, and David is given the sword of Goliath. David and Goliath by Caravaggio, c. ... This entry incorporates text from Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation. ... Showbread, shewbread, Schaubrot, lechem (hap)pānīm(לחם פנים) refers to the twelve cakes or loaves of bread which were continually present on the Table of Shewbread in the Jewish Temple as an offering to Yhwh. ... David faces Goliath in single combat. ...


Doeg is mentioned in the Book of First Samuel, in chapters 21 and 22: The Books of Samuel, also referred to as [The Book of] Samuel (Hebrew: שְׁמוּאֵל), are (two) books in the Hebrew Bible (Judaisms Tanakh and originally written in Hebrew) and the Old Testament of Christianity. ...


Doeg was at Nob and witnessed Ahimelech's service to David. Nob was a town or village in ancient Israel in the vicinity of Jerusalem. ...

1Sa 21:7 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.

Later, Saul asks about the whereabouts of David, and his herdsman speaks up: Edom (אֱדוֹם, Standard Hebrew Edom, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔḏôm) sounds like the Biblical Hebrew word for red and is a vividly apposite designation for the red sandstones of Edom. ...

1Sa 22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

Saul then summons the High Priest and his entire company, and in a rage, orders them all killed. Only Doeg is willing to do the deed. Jesse or Yishai (Hebrew יִשַׁי / יֵשַׁי, Standard Hebrew Yíšay / Yéšay, Tiberian Hebrew Yíšay / Yēšay) is the father of the Biblical King David mentioned in the Books of Samuel of the Hebrew Bible. ... Nob was a town or village in ancient Israel in the vicinity of Jerusalem. ... This entry incorporates text from Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation. ... Categories: Hebrew Bible/Tanakh-related stubs | Hebrew Bible/Tanakh people ...


David shows remorse:

1Sa 22:22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.

Saul is then reported to have had killed 85 priests, while the city of Nob was put to the sword, men, women, children and animals.



 
 

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