Verse 1
To the chiefe musition, a wyse instruction of Dauid, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and tolde him, saying: Dauid is come to the house of Achimelek. Why boastest thy self thou tiraunt of mischiefe? the goodnes of God dayly endureth.
Referenced Verses
- Ps 94:4 : 4 All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues.
- 1 Sam 21:7 : 7 (And there was there the same day a certaine man, of the seruautes of Saul, abyding before ye Lord, named Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of Sauls heardmen.)
- Ps 103:17 : 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of God endureth for euer and euer, vpon them that feare hym: and his righteousnesse vpon childers children.
- Ps 107:1 : 1 Confesse you it vnto God: for he is gratious, and his mercy endureth for euer.
- Ps 137:1-2 : 1 By the waters of Babylon we sat downe there: also we wept when we remembred Sion. 2 We hanged our harpes on the Salon trees: in the mydst of it.
- Prov 6:14 : 14 He is euer imagining mischiefe and frowardnes in his heart, and causeth discorde.
- Prov 6:18 : 18 An heart that goeth about wicked imaginations, feete that be swyft in running to mischiefe,
- Isa 59:4 : 4 No man regardeth righteousnesse, and no man iudgeth truely: euery man hopeth in vayne things, and imagineth deceipt, conceaueth weerinesse, and bringeth foorth euill.
- 1 Sam 22:9-9 : 9 Then aunswered Doeg the Edomite (which was appoynted by ye seruauntes of Saul) and sayd: I sawe the sonne of Isai, when he came to Nob to Ahimelech the sonne of Ahitob, 10 Whiche asked councel of the Lorde for him, and gaue him vittayles, and the sword of Goliath the Philistine also. 11 Then the king sent and called for Ahimelech the priest the sonne of Ahitob, & all his fathers house that is to saye the priestes that were in Nob: And they came all to the king. 12 And Saul sayde: Heare nowe thou sonne of Ahitob. He aunswered: Here I am, my lorde. 13 And Saul sayde vnto him: Why haue ye conspired agaynst me, thou, and the sonne of Isai, in that thou hast geuen him vittayle, and a sworde, and hast asked councel of God for him, yt he shoulde aryse against me, and lye in waite for me as appeareth this day? 14 Ahimelech aunswered the king, and sayde: Who is so faithfull among all thy seruauntes, as Dauid, and therto the kinges sonne in lawe: and goeth at thy bidding, and is had in honour in thyne house? 15 Haue I this day begun first to aske councell of God for him? That be farre from me: Let not the king impute any thing vnto his seruaut, nor to all ye house of my father: For thy seruaunt knewe nothing of all this, either lesse or more. 16 The king sayde, Thou shalt surely die Ahimelech, thou, & al thy fathers house. 17 And the king sayde vnto the footemen that stoode about him: Turne, and slay the priestes of the Lorde: both because their hand is with Dauid, and because they knewe when Dauid fled, and shewed it not to me. But the seruauntes of the king would not moue their hades to fal vpon the priestes of the Lorde. 18 And the king sayde to Doeg: Turne thou, & fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and ranne vpon the priestes, & slue that same day fourescore and fiue persons that did weare a linnen Ephod. 19 And Nob the citie of ye priestes, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklinges, oxen and asses, & sheepe, with the edge of the sworde.
- Ps 7:14 : 14 Beholde, he wyll be in trauayle of a mischiefe, for he hath conceaued a labour: but yet he shall be brought to bed of a falsehood.
- Ps 10:2-3 : 2 The vngodly of a wylfulnesse persecuteth the poore: but euery one of them shalbe taken in the craftie wylines that they haue imagined. 3 For the vngodly prayseth according to his owne heartes desire: and blessing the couetous, he blasphemeth God.
- Gen 6:4-5 : 4 But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme. 5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day.
- Gen 10:8-9 : 8 The children of Raamah: Seba, and Dedan, Chus also begat Nimrod. 9 The same began to be mightie in the earth, for he was a mightie hunter before the Lorde: Wherfore it is sayde, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the Lorde.
- Exod 22:9 : 9 And in al maner of trespasse, whether it be for oxe, asse, or sheepe, rayment, or any maner of lost thing, which another chalengeth to be his: the cause of both parties shall come before the Iudges, and whom the Iudges condemne, let him pay double vnto his neyghbour.
- Ps 36:3-6 : 3 The wordes of his mouth are vnrighteous and full of deceipt: he hath left of to behaue him selfe wisely & to do good. 4 He imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed, & setteth him selfe in no good way: neither doth he abhorre any thing yt is euil. 5 Thy mercy O God reacheth vnto heauen: and thy faythfulnes vnto the cloudes. 6 Thy righteousnes is like the mountaynes of God: thy iudgementes are a great deapth, thou sauest both man and beast O God.
- Ps 54:3 : 3 For straungers are rysen vp against me: and tirauntes whiche haue not the Lorde before their eyes, seeke after my soule. Selah.
- Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?
- Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.
- Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.
- Mic 7:3 : 3 Yet they say they do wel, when they do euyll: the prince asketh, and the iudge iudgeth for a rewarde, therfore the great man speaketh out of the corruption of his soule, and so they wrappe it vp.
- Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbyters, haters of God, dispiteful, proude, boasters, bryngers vp of euyll thinges, disobedient to father & mother:
- 2 Tim 3:2 : 2 For men shalbe louers of their owne selues, couetous, boasters, proude, blasphemers, disobedient to fathers and mothers, vnthankefull, vngodlye:
- 1 John 4:7-8 : 7 Dearely beloued, let vs loue one another, for loue commeth of God: And euery one that loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue.