Doeg
Gender: Male
Years: -1062 - -1062
Dictionary Text: Fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul’s flocks. At the command of Saul he slew the high priest Ahimelech at Nob, together with all the priests to the number of eighty-five persons., title.
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Verses
- 1 Samuel 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.
- 1 Samuel 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.
- 1 Samuel 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.
- 1 Samuel 22:18: And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
