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1 Samuel 22:8-10

1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 Samuel 22:8 all of you have conspired against me. Saul does not trust in the Lord, and now he trusts no one else either, even his own servants. Doeg is called the Edomite three times in this episode (vv. 1 Samuel 22:9, 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Samuel 22:22; also 1 Samuel 21:7), probably to point out that it was a foreigner who betrayed David and killed the priests. In 1 Samuel 21:1 there is no reference to Ahimelech’s consulting the Lord, so Doeg may be lying here.

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See also 1 Samuel 22:8-10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 22:8. THERE IS _NONE THAT SHOWETH ME_] He conjectured that Jonathan had made a league with David to dethrone him, and he accuses them of disloyalty for not making the discovery of this...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IS SORRY FOR. taketh pity upon....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _hath made a league_ HATH MADE A COVENANT, as in 1 Samuel 20:16. Saul seems to have heard what happened upon that occasion....

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN SAUL SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS— If this complaint was true, Saul must have been an exceedingly bad master, to be so entirely deserted and unpitied by his own servants, even when he had estates and p...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Saul's Increasing Jealousy. 1 Samuel 22:6-16_ 6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that _were_ with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST ME, AND THERE IS NONE THAT SHEWETH ME THAT MY SON HATH MADE A LEAGUE WITH THE SON OF JESSE, AND THERE IS NONE OF YOU THAT IS SORRY FOR ME, OR SHEWETH UNTO ME TH...

  • 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....

  • 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

    THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE CONSPIRED. — The unhappy, jealous spirit had obtained such complete mastery over the unhappy king that now he suspected even the chosen men of his own tribe. All his tried favouri...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּי֩ קְשַׁרְתֶּ֨ם כֻּלְּכֶ֜ם עָלַ֗י וְ אֵין...

  • 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

    CAPTAIN OF AN OUTLAWED BAND 1 Samuel 22:1 What a striking analogy there is between the gathering of these outlawed men to David, and the attraction of publicans and sinners, in all ages, to Christ! H...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    That all of you have conspired against me, and [there is] none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (6) В¶ When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing abou...

  • 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

    THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST ME,.... For though they had not revolted from him, and been guilty of overt acts of treason, yet since they did not discover to him what he supposed they knew, a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    That all of you have conspired against me, and [there is] none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me...

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

    _Having his spear in his hand_ It seems, as an ensign of majesty, for in old times kings carried a spear instead of a sceptre. _Ye Benjamites_ You that are of my own tribe and kindred, from whom David...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that showeth me that my son, namely, Jonathan, HATH MADE A LEAGUE WITH THE SON OF JESSE, AND THERE IS NONE OF YOU THAT IS SORRY FOR ME, sho...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SAUL TAKES REVENGE UPON THE PRIESTS OF NOB...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHEWETH ME: _ Heb._ uncovereth mine ear...

  • 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

    MY SON HATH MADE A LEAGUE WITH THE SON OF JESSE: this he suspected, partly from Jonathan's passionate love for David, which he had formerly and constantly declared; and from his late discontent and de...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 22:8 conspired H7194 (H8804) reveals H1540 (H8802) H241 son H1121 covenant H3772 (H8800) son...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SAUL REVEALS HIS TRUE COLOURS (1 SAMUEL 22:6). While David was going through his period of refining, Saul was displaying his true colours. Unlike David he did not learn from his tribulations. He rath...

  • 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 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 18:3; 1 Samuel 20:13; 1 Samuel 20:2; 1 Samuel 20:30;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    That all, &c. — See the nature of jealousy, and its arts of wheedling to extort discoveries of things that are not....

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