1 Samuel 22:21 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 22:21

And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the Lord’s priests.

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ASV

And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Jehovah’s priests.

WEB

And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

YLT

and Abiathar declareth to David that Saul hath slain the priests of Jehovah.

DBT

And Abiathar informed David that Saul had slain Jehovah's priests.

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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1 Samuel 2:33
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.

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1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), as the disciples of John, when their master was beheaded, went and told Jesus, Matt. xiv. And David greatly lamented the calamity itself, but especially his being accessory to it: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

On hearing his sad tale, David declared that he had dreaded such a fatal result from the malice and intriguing ambition of Doeg; and, accusing himself as having been the occasion of all the disaster to Abiathar's family, David invited him to remain, because, firmly trusting himself in the accomplishment of the divine promise, David could guarantee protection to him.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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