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The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
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Verse 18. Five. Josephus reads “385.” Septuagint “305.”—Ephod. They all appeared in this dress, as they were priests. Calmet.—It was different from the sacred ephod. Abulensis.—Thus the posterity of Heli was almost entirely cut off, as God had threatened. Calmet. 2. D. Tirinus.
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