John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 9. Then answered Doeg the Edomite , etc.] Josephus calls him a Syrian, and so the Septuagint version; (see 1 Samuel 21:7); being full of enmity to David, and willing to curry favour with Saul, and eager of further preferment, which Saul seemed to promise; and being more forward than the rest of his servants, prevented them and spoke first: (which was set over the servants of Saul) : over his herdsmen; (see Samuel 21:7); and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub ; in imitation of Saul, he calls David by way of contempt the son of Jesse; and signifies that what he had to say of him was not by report, but he himself was an eyewitness of his coming to Nob, a city of the priests, and to Ahimelech the high priest there, and of what passed between them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-19 - See the nature of jealous malice and its pitiful arts. Saul looks upo all about him as his enemies, because they do not just say as he says In Ahimelech's answer to Saul we have the language of consciou innocence. But what wickedness will not the evil spirit hurry men to when he gets the dominion! Saul alleges that which was utterly fals and unproved. But the most bloody tyrants have found instruments of their cruelty as barbarous as themselves. Doeg, having murdered the priests, went to the city, Nob, and put all to the sword there. Nothin so vile but those may do it, who have provoked God to give them up to their hearts' lusts. Yet this was the accomplishment of the threatenings against the house of Eli. Though Saul was unrighteous in doing this, yet God was righteous in permitting it. No word of God shall fall to the ground.
Original Hebrew ויען6030 דאג1673 האדמי130 והוא1931 נצב5324 על5921 עבדי5650 שׁאול7586 ויאמר559 ראיתי7200 את853 בן1121 ישׁי3448 בא935 נבה5011 אל413 אחימלך288 בן1121 אחטוב׃285
