DOEG

An Edomite, overseer of Saul’s flocks. At Nob he witnessed the relief kindly furnished to David when fleeing from Saul, by Ahimelech the high priest, and carried a malicious and distorted report of it to his master. The king gladly seized the opportunity to wreak his passion on a helpless victim; and when the Jews around him refused to slay the priests of God, infamously used the willing services of this alien and heathen. Doeg not only slew Ahimelech and eighty-four other priests, but put the town in which they dwelt to the sword, 1Sa 21:15. David forebodes his wretched fate, Ps 52:1-9 120:1-7 140:1-13.

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Doeg. Doeg
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. careful, who acts with uneasiness

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