1 Samuel 22:19

19 Também a Nobe, cidade desses sacerdotes, passou a fio de espada; homens e mulheres, meninos e criancinhas de peito, e até os bois, jumentos e ovelhas passou a fio de espada.

1 Samuel 22:19 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 22:19

And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of
the sword
Either Doeg or Saul; who, as Josephus ^F9 says, sent men thither to slay all the inhabitants of it: both men and women, children and sucklings;
not sparing sex nor age: and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword;
Saul, who was so tender hearted and merciful in the case of the Amalekites, when his orders from the Lord were utterly to destroy them, ( 1 Samuel 15:2 1 Samuel 15:3 ) , that he spared their king, and the best of their cattle, ( 1 Samuel 15:7-9 ) ; yet now so cruel to a city of the priests, as to destroy all the inhabitants of it, and cattle in it; and yet this bloody affair of Saul's is not taken notice of afterwards, only his slaughter of the Gibeonites, ( 2 Samuel 21:1 ) ; and Abarbinel is of opinion, that the inhabitants of this place were Gibeonites, who were hewers of wood, and drawers of water, to the house of the Lord here, ( Joshua 9:23 Joshua 9:27 ) . Now Saul was the more severe this city, to deter others from joining with David, who, if they did, must expect the same treatment.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Antiqu. l. 6. c. 12. sect. 6.

1 Samuel 22:19 In-Context

17 E disse o rei aos da sua guarda que estavam com ele: Virai-vos, e matai os sacerdotes do Senhor, porque também a mão deles está com Davi, e porque sabiam que ele fugia e não mo fizeram saber. Mas os servos do rei não quiseram estender as suas mãos para arremeter contra os sacerdotes do Senhor.

18 Então disse o rei a Doegue: Vira-te e arremete contra os sacerdotes. Virou-se, então, Doegue, o edomeu, e arremeteu contra os sacerdotes, e matou naquele dia oitenta e cinco homens que vestiam éfode de linho.

19 Também a Nobe, cidade desses sacerdotes, passou a fio de espada; homens e mulheres, meninos e criancinhas de peito, e até os bois, jumentos e ovelhas passou a fio de espada.

20 Todavia um dos filhos de Aimeleque, filho de Aitube, que se chamava Abiatar, escapou e fugiu para Davi.

21 E Abiatar anunciou a Davi que Saul tinha matado os sacerdotes do Senhor.