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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

1 Samuel 22:19

And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, in an insane fury of destruction, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword, his action indicating that he considered the whole city under the ban of Jehovah for harboring David.

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See also 1 Samuel 22:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 22:19. _AND NOB - SMOTE HE WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD_] This is one of the worst acts in the life of Saul; his malice was implacable, and his wrath was cruel, and there is no motive of...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ... - The language employed in the case of the Amalekites 1 Samuel 15:3 and of Jericho Joshua 6:21. Nothing could be more truculent than Saul’s revenge....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 22 _ 1. In the cave of Adullam (1 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. In Moab and Gad's message (1 Samuel 22:3) 3. Saul's discovery of David's visit to Nob (1 Samuel 22:6) 4. The murder of the priests ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 SAMUEL 22. DAVID AT ADULLAM AND MOAB: MASSACRE AT NOB (J). The series of narratives in ch. 22 may very well come from the same ancient document, and be the continuation of 1 Samuel 21:1. 1 SAMUEL 2...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Saul's vengeance on the priests of Nob 6. _that David was discovered_ Lit. "was known." Saul found out that some of his courtiers knew of David's hiding-place in the forest of Hareth. _now Saul abode...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And Nob_, &c. In the madness of his self-willed fury Saul wreaked upon an innocent city in his own kingdom the vengeance he had failed to execute upon a guilty heathen nation at God's command (1 Samu...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DOEG—SLEW ON THAT DAY FOURSCORE AND FIVE PERSONS— Josephus says, that Doeg, taking to his assistance some men as wicked as himself, slew, in all, _three hundred and eighty-five_ persons. The LXX says...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Saul's Slaughter of the Priests._ 1 Samuel 22:17-23 17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also _is_ with David, and b...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND NOB, THE CITY OF THE PRIESTS, SMOTE HE WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, CHILDREN AND SUCKLINGS, AND OXEN, AND ASSES, AND SHEEP, WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD._ Nob ... smote he with...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM. SAUL'S SLAUGHTER OF THE PRIESTS AT NOB 1. Adullam] probably in the valley of Elah between Philistia and Hebron....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Saul probably wished to make an example which would deter others from rendering David any assistance....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 22 DAVID AT ADULLAM AND MIZPAH V1 David left Gath and went to a cave near Adullam. His brothers and his father’s family discovered where he h...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NOB, THE CITY OF THE PRIESTS, SMOTE HE. — The vengeful king, not content with striking the men, the heads of the priestly houses, in his insane fury proceeded to treat the innocent city where they res...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֵ֨ת נֹ֤ב עִיר ־הַ כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ הִכָּ֣ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXIX. _ DAVID AT ADULLAM, MIZPEH, AND HARETH._ 1 Samuel 22:1. THE cave of Adullam, to which David fled on leaving Gath, has been placed in various localities even in modern times; but as the...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SLAUGHTER OF DAVID'S FRIENDS 1 Samuel 22:11 The Apostle James says that “the tongue is set on fire of hell.” Surely this was the case when Saul, encamped on the height above Gibeah, scattered hi...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Leaving Gath, David took refuge in the cave of Adullam, where there gathered to him a band of the outcasts of his own people. They are graphically described as those in "distress," in "debt," and "dis...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sword. Saul, now abandoned God, acts against all law. He probably, on this occasion, destroyed the inhabitants of Gabaon, to make place for the tabernacle, which was removed hither. (Calmet) See chap...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (16) And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house. (17) And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; becaus...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    David now takes his place fully with the excellent of the earth (Hebrews 11:38). There the prophet Gad joins him; he is guided in a direct manner by the plain testimony of God, and soon after he is jo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND NOB, THE CITY OF THE PRIESTS, SMOTE HE WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD,.... Either Doeg or Saul; who, as Josephus i says, sent men thither to slay all the inhabitants of it: BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, CHILDR...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. Ver. 19. _And Nob, the c...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Both men and women, children and sucklings_ In all the life of Saul there is no wickedness to be compared to this. He appears now to be wholly under the power of that evil spirit which had long torme...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Companies resort vnto Dauid at Adullam. 3 At Mizpeh he commendeth his parents vnto the King of Moab. 5 Admonished by Gad, hee commeth to Hareth. 6 Saul going to pursue him, complaineth of his ser...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    David wrotePsalms 34:1 at this time, which shows that he was truly restored to the Lord. Verse 4 of that Psalm is particularly significant, "I sought the Lord and He heard me, and delivered me from al...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-19 See the nature of jealous malice and its pitiful arts. Saul looks upon all about him as his enemies, because they do not just say as he says. In Ahimelech's answer to Saul we have the language o...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE; either Saul, or Doeg, with the help of some others whom Saul appointed to that work. By this barbarous and bloody fact Saul thought to affright all his subjects from giving any countenance or assi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 22:19 Nob H5011 city H5892 priests H3548 struck H5221 (H8689) edge H6310 sword H2719 men H376 women...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And he smote Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.' Doeg then followed this...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David in rejection gathers mighty men. His wanderings and dangers. CHARACTERS: David, Saul, Gad, Ahimelech, Doeg, Abiathar. CONCLUSION: Those who give way to jealousy are in a continual ag...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 22:10. _He enquired of the Lord for him._ This was a lie, which Doeg invented to ingratiate himself with Saul: 1 Samuel 22:22; Psalms 52:3....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the prophet Gad said unto David._ A FRIEND AND A FOE I. The visit of Gad the seer. David had been brought very low through his own mistakes. God proved him in the hold. Then He sent to him. Whe...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 22:19 Saul treats NOB like some enemy city that has been “devoted to destruction” (see note on 15:3), though previously he had failed to destroy the Amalekites (ch....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 22:6. “ABODE UNDER A TREE,” etc. Rather, _was sitting under a tamarisk tree upon the height_. (For Ramah see Notes on 1 Samuel 1:1.) “Oriental princes frequentl...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION COMMENCEMENT OF DAVID'S LIFE AS AN OUTLAW. 1 SAMUEL 22:1 THE CAVE ADULLAM. According to Josephus this was situated near a city of the same name ('Ant.,'...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And he went from there, and he escaped to the cave at Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard of it, they went down to him there. And every one that was in distress, and every...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 15:9; 1 Samuel 21:1; 1 Samuel 22:11; 1 Samue

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Both men, &c. — In all the life of Saul, there is no wickedness to be compared to this. He appears now to be wholly under the power of that evil spirit which had long tormented him. And this destructi...

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