BRAGADAYJAH 139

Friday, February 26, 2016

BRAGADAYJAH 888

BRAGADAYJAH 888

Saul then ordered his footmen to slay all the priests of the Lord, because they were with David, and because they knew when he fled and they did not inform him. But Saul’s servants would not put forth their hands to slay the priests of the Lord. So he ordered Doeg, the head of his servants, to fall upon the priests and slay them; and Doeg fell upon them and slayed them one by one, some 85 of them that day, every one that wore a linen ephod. Then he turned to Nob, the city of the priests and there he smote men, women and children, even those who were sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep with the edge of the sword. And one of the sons of Abimelech, the son of Ahitub whose name was Abiathar, escaped and fled after David, and he told David that Saul had slaughtered all the priests of the Lord. And David said, “I knew it that day when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul.  I am responsible for all the deaths in your father’s house. Abide with me; fear not; for he that seeks my life seeks also your life also; but if you remain with me you will be safe. There is little doubt that David, the man who killed Philistines by the thousands, could have killed Doeg that day if he wanted to, knowing that he was Saul’s top servant, and would report what he had seen to Saul. Yet David continued to exercise this unbelievable restraint, the kind of restraint that is absolutely incomprehensible in human terms.  

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