Doeg

Doeg Scripture - Psalms 52:1

Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth] continually....

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Doeg Scripture - 1 Samuel 21:7

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul....

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Doeg Scripture - 1 Samuel 22:22

And David said unto Abiathar, I knew [it] that day, when Doeg the Edomite [was] there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned [the death] of all the persons of thy father's house....

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Doeg in Wikipedia

was an Edomite, chief herdsman to Saul, King of Israel. (1 Samuel 21:7 ) He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible book of First Samuel, in chapters 21 and 22. David had fled from Saul's jealous anger to the High Priest Ahimelech, where David and his men were fed with the showbread, and David was given the sword of Goliath. Doeg was at Nob and witne...

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Doeg in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

do'-eg (do'-egh "anxious," "cared for"): "The Edomite," a servant of Saul, who watched David's intercourse with the priest Ahimelech, then denounced the priest to the king, and later executed his command to slay the priests at Nob. The position he held is described as that of "the mightiest" of Samuel's herdsmen (1 Sam 21:7 margin). Septuagint...

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Doeg in Naves Topical Bible

An Edomite, present when Ahimelech helped David 1Sa 21:7; Ps 52 -Murdered eighty-five priests 1Sa 22:18,19...

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Doeg in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(fearful), an Idumean, chief of Saul's herdmen. (B.C. 1062.) He was at Nob when Ahimelech gave David the sword of Goliath, and not only gave information to Saul, but when others declined the office, himself executed the king's order to destroy the priests of Nob, with their families, to the number of 85 persons, together with all their propert...

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Doeg in Easton's Bible Dictionary

fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul's flocks (1 Sam. 21:7). At the command of Saul he slew the high priest Ahimelech (q.v.) at Nob, together with all the priests to the number of eighty-five persons. (Comp. Ps. 52, title.)...

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Doeg in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

An Idumean, chief of Saul's herdsmen. At Nob (1 Samuel 21:7) "detained before the Lord" by some act of purification or vow, which as a proselyte he was performing, when Ahimelech gave David Goliath's sword and the shewbread. With officious eagerness and talebearing exaggeration (marked in the title of Psalm 52 by the tautology "came and told a...

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