OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 21:7

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Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

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Verse 7. Within. Hebrew mehtsar, “detained, or assembles before the Lord.” Theodoret thinks he was possessed; others believe he had made a vow, and so forth—Edomite. Some Greek copies read, a Syrian, as also Calmet. 22:9. Calmet.—He had embraced the Jewish religion. Menochius.

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