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Then Saul said to the servants who were standing around him, “Please listen, Benjaminites![a] Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? For all of you have conspired against me, and no one discloses to me[b] the making[c] of an agreement between my son and the son of Jesse! None of you have had sympathy for me or disclosed to me[d] that my son commissioned my servant against me to ambush me[e] as has been done this day!”

But Doeg the Edomite, who was stationed among the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 22:7 Literally “children of Benjamin”
  2. 1 Samuel 22:8 Literally “there is no one revealing to my ear”
  3. 1 Samuel 22:8 Literally “cutting”
  4. 1 Samuel 22:8 Literally “revealing to my ear”
  5. 1 Samuel 22:8 Literally “my son has raised my servant against me to an ambush”