1 Samuel 22:18
So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
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.
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Doeg
- 1 Samuel 22:9
- he fell
- 2 Chronicles 24:21; Hosea 5:11; Hosea 7:3; Micah 6:16; Zephaniah 3:3; Acts 26:10, 11
- fourscore
- The LXX. read, [tria kosious kai pente andras,] "three hundred and five men;" and Josephus, "three hundred and eighty-five men." Probably the eighty-five were priests and the three hundred the families of the priests; three hundred and eighty-five being the whole population of Nob.
- 1 Samuel 2:30–33, 36; 1 Samuel 3:12–14
- a linen ephod
- 1 Samuel 2:28; Exodus 28:40