7<\/strong>. detained before the Lord<\/em> ] In charge of the priest for some religious purpose such as the fulfilment of a vow, or purification, or on account of suspected leprosy (Lev 13:4<\/span>; Lev 13:11<\/span>; Lev 13:31<\/span>). His presence in the Tabernacle implies that he was a proselyte.<\/p>\n Doeg, an Edomite<\/em> ] He may have come over to Saul in his wars with Edom (1Sa 14:47<\/span>).<\/p>\n the chiefest of the herdmen<\/em>, &c.] An important post in a pastoral country. Cp. 1Ch 27:29<\/span>; 1Ch 27:31<\/span>. The Sept. reads, “Doeg the Syrian, the keeper of Saul’s mules.” Cp. 1Ch 27:30<\/span>. “Syrian” is certainly a mistake for “Edomite,” the consonants of the Heb. words “Aramite” and “Edomite” being almost exactly alike.<\/p>\n Detained before the Lord – <\/B>Either to fulfill a vow Act 21:23-27<\/span>, or on account of uncleanness, or under the law of lepers Lev 13:4<\/span>, Lev 13:11<\/span>, Lev 13:21<\/span>, or as a proselyte. It is not impossible that Doeg may have been in custody or in sanctuary for some crime.<\/P><\/p>\n 1Sa 21:7<\/span><\/p>\n A certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Doeg the Edomite<\/strong><\/p>\n Doeg was detained there before the Lord. How or why he was detained before the Lord, we are not informed. Doeg the Edomite was detained there that day before the Lord, and with his eyes upturned and his arms across his breast, very probably groaning as if moved to the heart by the aspect of poor David and his few straggling companions, dusty, and dirty and hungry. Doeg witnessed all and hurrying off to the royal palace told King Saul all he saw and all he heard during his stay at Nob, as passing between David and Ahimelech. This malicious spy was glad to violate all confidence.<\/p>\n Verse 7<\/span>. Detained before the Lord<\/B><\/I>] Probably fulfilling some vow to the Lord, and therefore for a time resident at the tabernacle.<\/P> <\/P> And his name<\/B><\/I> was <\/B>Doeg<\/B><\/I>] From 1Sa 22:9<\/span> we learn that this man betrayed David’s secret to Saul, which caused him to destroy the city, and slay eighty-five priests. We learn from its title that the fifty-second Psalm<\/span> was made on this occasion; but titles are not to be implicitly trusted.<\/P> <\/p>\n Detained; <\/B>not by force from others, but by his own choice; he fixed his abode there for that day; either because it was the sabbath day, on which he might not proceed in his journey, or other business; or for the discharge of some vow; or to beg direction and help from God in some great business. <\/P> Before the Lord, <\/B>i.e. at the tabernacle. <\/P> An Edomite; <\/B>either, <\/P> 1. By his habitation and conversation among those people for some considerable time, as for the same reason Uriah is called the Hittite, and Obed-edom the Gittite: or rather, <\/P> 2. By his birth and nation; but he was proselyted to the Jewish religion, or took it up for sinister ends, being advanced, as here we read, to a place of trust and preferment, possibly upon this occasion. <\/P> <\/p>\n 7. Doeg, an Edomite<\/B>who hadembraced the Hebrew religion. <\/P> detained before the Lord<\/B>atthe tabernacle, perhaps, in the performance of a vow, or from itsbeing the Sabbath, which rendered it unlawful for him to prosecutehis journey. <\/P> the chiefest of the herdmenthat belonged to Saul<\/B>Eastern monarchs anciently had largepossessions in flocks and herds; and the office of the chief shepherdwas an important one. <\/P> 1Sa21:9<\/span>. HE TAKESGOLIATH’S SWORD.<\/P><\/p>\n Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day<\/strong>,…. When David came to Nob, and asked bread of the priest, and had it, which this man was an eyewitness of, 1Sa 22:9<\/span>;<\/p>\n detained before the Lord<\/strong>; either because it was sabbath day, and so he might not travel, at least no more than two thousand cubits; or by some vow of his, which he was obliged to stay and perform; or on account of some impurity he had contracted, which he came to be cleansed from; or this detention was voluntary, in order to offer sacrifice to the Lord, or pray unto him, or to study the law of God in the tabernacle, pretending to be a very religious man:<\/p>\n and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite<\/strong>, being by birth an Idumean, but a proselyte to the Jewish religion; or he was of the seed of Israel, but because he had dwelt in Edom, he was called an Edomite, as Kimchi thinks; just as Uriah is called for a like reason the Hittite:<\/p>\n the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul<\/strong>; Saul had his herds and men to look after them, and this man was set over them all, to see that they faithfully discharged their trust. The same officer the Romans called the praefect, or master of the cattle k; [See comments on 1Ch 27:29]<\/span>, and [See comments on 1Ch 27:31]<\/span>; though this man was not only over the king’s cattle, but over those that kept them; and was in the same office as Phorbas was, under Laius king of Thebes l, and Melanthius in Homer m, and Faustulus to Amulius n: but Abarbinel is of opinion that this is to be understood not of the keepers of herds and flocks, but of the shepherds or rulers of the people; and that this man was set over all the other magistrates and rulers of the people, hence said to be “set over the servants of Saul”, 1Sa 22:9<\/span>; and so Jarchi calls him “Ab Beth Din”, or father of the sanhedrim, or great court of judicature; who was detained in the tabernacle to learn the law there, that he might be the better qualified for his office; but Kimchi interprets it as we do, the chief of the keepers of the herd, and both the Septuagint and Josephus o say that he fed the king’s mules.<\/p>\n k Vid. Pignorium de servis, p. 539. l Senecae Oedipus, Act. 4. v. 815, 816, 839. m Odyss. 20. ver. 21. n Aurel. Victor. orig. Gent. Roman. o Antiqu. l. 6. c. 12. sect. 1.<\/p>\n (7) A certain man.<\/strong>Among the personages who surround Saul in the Bible story appears incidentally the keeper of the royal mules, and chief of the household slaves, the Comes stabuli, the constable of the king, as appears in the later monarchy. He is the first instance of a foreigner employed in a high function in Israel, being an Edomite, or Syrian, of the name of Doegaccording to Jewish tradition, the steward who accompanied Saul in his pursuit after the asses, who counselled him to send for David, and who ultimately slew him, according to the sacred narrativea person of vast and sinister influence in his masters counsels. (Stanley, Lectures on the Jewish Church, <\/em>Lect. 21) Some traditions affirm that the armour-bearer who slew Saul on Mount Gilboa was not Doeg, but Doegs son.<\/p>\n The Hebrew words rendered in the English Version, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged <\/em>to Saul, are translated in the LXX. by feeding the mules of Saul; and in accordance with this reading, in 1Sa. 22:9<\/span> also, they have changed Sauls servants into Sauls mules. The Vulg. and the other versions, however, translate as the English Version, potentissimus pastorum, although in some of the Vulg. MSS. there is an explanatory gloss, evidently derived from the singular interpretation of the LXX., <\/em>This (man) used to feed Sauls mules. There can be no foundation in tradition or otherwise for such a reading, as we never read until the days of King David of mules being used by royal princes. (See 2Sa. 13:29<\/span>; 2Sa. 18:9<\/span>.) Before Davids time, the sons of princes used to ride on asses. (See Jdg. 10:4<\/span>; Jdg. 12:14<\/span>.) Ewald, disregarding the current Jewish tradition respecting the ancient connection of Doeg with the house of Kish, considers that this influential chieftain of the king probably came over to Saul in his war with Edom.<\/p>\n Detained before the Lord.<\/strong>Several interpretations have been suggested for these words. (a) <\/em>He was at the sanctuary of the Tabernacle as a proselyteone who wished to be received into the religious communion of Israel. (b) <\/em>He was detained there for his purification on account of supposed leprosy, or simply in fulfilment of a temporary Nazarite vow. (c) According to Ephrem Syrus (who probably referred to some lost tradition), he had committed some trespass, and was detained there till he had offered the appointed sacrifice. Any one of these reasonsall sufficiently probable in themselveswould have occasioned a residence long or short at the sanctuary at Nob. At all events, when the fugitive David recognised the presence of one of Sauls most unscrupulous servants, whom he must have known well, his mind must have misgiven him, and he, probably on this account, hasted to get away, and at once begs the old high priest to furnish him with any arms he might have laid up in the priestly homes.<\/p>\n 7<\/strong>. <\/strong> Detained before the Lord <\/strong> But what detained him? Various answers have been given, as that he was fulfiling some vow at the tabernacle, or offering some special sacrifice. But if the supposition of the above note be correct, that David’s interview with the priest occurred on the sabbath day, then we may naturally understand that Doeg was detained there by the sabbath, since it would be unlawful to be abroad at his work on that holy day. <\/p>\n The chiefest of the herdmen <\/strong> Overseer and chief manager of this department of the king’s affairs. Doeg is introduced here in anticipation of what is related in 1Sa 22:9-22<\/span>, and also, perhaps, to account for David’s words and action. David had often inquired of the Lord through Ahimelech, (1Sa 22:15<\/span>,) and had probably come to Nob to do so now, but, finding Doeg there, he seems to have been confused and embarrassed, so framed a fictitious pretext as to his coming alone, and then took his departure as soon as possible. His strange action may have led Doeg to suspect conspiracy between him and Ahimelech against the government of Saul. Compare 1Sa 22:9-13<\/span>.<\/p>\n 1Sa 21:7<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Detained before the Lord<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> That is, not by force, but either on account of some vow, or for the making of some necessary expiation. <\/p>\n (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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The character of this man is somewhat singular. He was an Edomite; that is, one of the stock of Esau. How came he in the house of the Lord, or employed in the service of Saul? Perhaps from being skilful as an herdsman. And observe the expression; he was detained before the Lord; that is, his attendance in the sanctuary was constrained, not willingly. So that take him altogether, he was an enemy to God and his people. His presence, when David came to the sanctuary, foreboded no good. When the sons of God present themselves before the Lord, Satan comes also with them. Job 1:6<\/span> .<\/p>\n “… detained before the Lord.” 1Sa 21:7<\/span><\/em> .<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Such words are to be used simply by way of accommodation, either for private meditation or for public preaching. There is a detention before the Lord that amounts to imprisonment, the accused having a sense of being arrested and charged at the bar of heaven. Men are detained before the Lord in various ways, as, for example, (a) by conscience, when some moral charge presses its claim upon us; ( b<\/em> ) by gratitude, when we stand in the act of counting the divine mercies we have received, and numbering the divine blessings which surround us, our hearts all the while overflowing with a sense of thankfulness to the Giver of all good; ( c<\/em> ) by religious contemplation, when wonder is excited at the greatness of the universe, when amazement seizes the mind because of the minuteness and beneficence of providence, when events so shape themselves as to prove superior to human direction, and yet to be tending in a course filled with blessedness to the human family; ( d<\/em> ) by loving and exultant devotion, as when the heart is bowed down with pure emotion, and the soul is lifted up in high and unselfish expectation because of the conscious nearness of God and his evident willingness to create for himself an opportunity in our life that he may enlarge all his former gifts in one supreme blessing. Then there is a detention before the Lord that involves the exercise of patience; we do not get an answer so soon as we want it; we think we have an urgent petition, demanding an instantaneous reply, and yet we are kept waiting day by day. Who can tell the meaning of all these detentions? Blessed are they who are detained before God because the Lord has much to say to them in the way of instruction, comfort, and stimulus. Who has not felt the words rising to his lips in many an hour of glowing realisation of the divine presence “Abide with us”?<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Ver. 7. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day.<\/strong> ] Doeg may set his foot as far within the tabernacle as David, and seem to be as devout: “but God knoweth your hearts,” saith our Saviour to the Pharisees, Luk 16:15 and will wash off your paint with rivers of brimstone. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Detained before the Lord.<\/strong> ] Either because it was the Sabbath, or by reason of some vow, or for some other religious respect. Some render it Incluserat se ante tabernaculum,<\/em> he had shut up himself – as a recluse – before the tabernacle; viz., that he might give himself wholly to reading and prayer. A wicked wretch he was, and of ill fame amongst the better sort; and therefore David was very sorry to see him there, 1Sa 22:22 as fearing that he would “carry tales to shed blood.” Eze 22:9 A very Judas he was, and a type of Judas Iscariot. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Doeg, an Edomite.<\/strong> ] By nation, but an Israelite by profession, as was also Ahimelech the Hittite, 1Sa 26:6 and Jether the Ismaelite. 1Ch 2:17<\/span> 2Sa 17:25<\/span><\/em> , marg.<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.<\/strong> ] The Septuagint makes him his mule keeper: the Rabbis say that he was that armourbearer of his that slew him, and himself also with him, 1Sa 31:5 but that is uncertain.<\/p>\n detained, &c. Probably from some ceremonial reason. Compare “shut up “(Jer 36:5), or a “vow “(Act 21:23-27), or “uncleanness” (Lev 13:4, Lev 13:11, Lev 13:21). <\/p>\n detained: Jer 7:9-11, Eze 33:31, Amo 8:5, Mat 15:8, Act 21:26, Act 21:27 <\/p>\n Doeg: 1Sa 22:9, Psa 52:1, *title <\/p>\n herdmen: 1Sa 11:5, Gen 13:7, Gen 13:8, Gen 26:20, 1Ch 27:29, 2Ch 26:10 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 47:6 – rulers 1Sa 13:12 – I forced Gal 1:10 – persuade<\/p>\n 1Sa 21:7. Detained before the Lord That is, at the tabernacle. It is not to be imagined that he was detained here by force, but by his own choice he stayed there that day, either because it was the sabbath day, on which he might not proceed on his journey, or for the performance of some vow, or other religious duty, to which he had obliged himself. His name was Doeg, an Edomite His native country was Edom; but he was proselyted to the Jewish religion.<\/p>\n 21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day, {f} detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.<\/p>\n (f) Tarrying to worship before the ark.<\/p>\n 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 herdsmen that [belonged] to Saul. 7. detained before the Lord ] In charge of the priest for some religious purpose such as the fulfilment of a vow, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 21:7”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>Doeg was detained there that day before the Lord as a spy. Now of all the characters in the world the spy is the meanest and the most despicable. It was allowed at the time, and historians confirm it, that the espionage system of the Duke of Wellington, during his Peninsular campaign, was the most perfect ever known in any European army, and yet his scouts were selected without regard to character. No man respects a spy. Is Doeg dead? It is to be feared that in every age there have been those who come to the house of God only to hear and report, and misrepresent the services of the sanctuary. The spy has neither character nor conscience.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>Doeg is there that day as a malicious tale bearer and wicked slanderer. The tale bearer and murderer are regarded by God as one and the same. A heathen once said, The slanderer is the most terrible of wild beasts.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>It is possible that Doeg may have been detained there that day before the Lord, for the very reason that he knew he was not wanted. It is clear that Ahimelech did not want him, and equally clear that the eighty-five priests whom he afterwards murdered so wantonly did not want him, and still more obvious that David did not want him. Not a single worshipper in the priestly City of Nob. Some men are woefully gifted with a perverse spirit, and their happiness consist in trying to make other men miserable. Their aim is annoy; evil is their good.<\/p>\n
IV. <\/strong>It may be that Doeg was detained there that day before the Lord, from the force of habit. He had been a churchgoing man.<\/p>\n
V. <\/strong>It may be that Doeg was detained there that day before the Lord, from the love of the service. The old Rabbis have a tradition that Doeg was a skilful performer on the psaltery, and wherever music was the prevailing part of the worship, he was present to take part in the service of song. If there is no higher motive than the mere gratification of a refined ear or a cultivated taste, or even a delicate sentimentalism, the ordinances cannot profit.<\/p>\n
VI. <\/strong>It may be that Doeg was detained there that day before the Lord, from the hope of patronage or preferment. He was only chief of the herdsmen of King Saul; probably, by acting as a spy and a tale bearer, be hoped to be advanced to some situation of honour and emolument. Doeg is ready for any work, from that of the highest seraph in heaven down to the lowest fiend in hell, if it will only pay!<\/p>\n
VII. <\/strong>It may be that Doeg was detained there that day before the Lord, because the service at Nob was a branch of the national worship. This was a priestly city, and the Divine arrangement provided that the house of Levi should have the sacerdotal cities and their suburbs. Doeg, therefore, as a Hebrew, had a right to attend upon any altar that represented the religion of the Hebrew commonwealth. Oh! that is Gods meeting place with the inquiring saint who is there that day detained before the Lord. because he wants to meet and hold communion with God. (R. Irvine, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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