Then answered Doeg The title of Psalms 52 states that it was composed by David in reference to this occasion. 1 Samuel 22:1 describe such a character as we may well suppose Doeg to have been. His tongue was "a false tongue," because, though the facts he reported were true, he helped to confirm Saul in a false and cruel suspicion. It "devised destruction," and "loved devouring words," for his story was told with malicious intent and fatal result.

which was set over the servants of Saul Or, for he was standing with the servants of Saul. The presence of the foreignerDoeg among the Benjamites is specially noticed. The Sept. (cp. 1 Samuel 21:7) reads, "Doeg the Syrian who was set over Saul's mules."

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