Verse 1
To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God `is' all the day.
Referenced Verses
- Ps 94:4 : 4 They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
- 1 Sam 21:7 : 7 And there `is' a man of the servants of Saul on that day detained before Jehovah, and his name `is' Doeg the Edomite, chief of the shepherds whom Saul hath.
- Ps 103:17 : 17 And the kindness of Jehovah `Is' from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,
- Ps 107:1 : 1 `Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age `is' His kindness:'
- Ps 137:1-2 : 1 By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. 2 On willows in its midst we hung our harps.
- Prov 6:14 : 14 Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
- Prov 6:18 : 18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --
- Isa 59:4 : 4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
- 1 Sam 22:9-9 : 9 And answer doth Doeg the Edomite, who is set over the servants of Saul, and saith, `I have seen the son of Jesse coming in to Nob, unto Ahimelech son of Ahitub, 10 and he asketh for him at Jehovah, and provision hath given to him, and the sword of Goliath the Philistine hath given to him. 11 And the king sendeth to call Ahimelech son of Ahitub, the priest, and all the house of his father, the priests, who `are' in Nob, and they come all of them unto the king; 12 and Saul saith, `Hear, I pray thee, son of Ahitub;' and he saith, `Here `am' I, my lord.' 13 And Saul saith unto him, `Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, by thy giving to him bread and a sword, and to ask for him at God, to rise against me, to lie in wait, as `at' this day?' 14 And Ahimelech answereth the king and saith, `And who among all thy servants `is' as David -- faithful, and son-in-law of the king, and hath turned aside unto thy council, and is honoured in thy house? 15 To-day have I begun to ask for him at God? far be it from me! let not the king lay anything against his servant, against any of the house of my father, for thy servant hath known nothing of all this, less or more.' 16 And the king saith, `Thou dost surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all the house of thy father.' 17 And the king saith to runners, those standing by him, `Turn round, and put to death the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also `is' with David, and because they have known that he is fleeing, and have not uncovered mine ear;' and the servants of the king have not been willing to put forth their hand to come against the priests of Jehovah. 18 And the king saith to Doeg, `Turn round thou, and come against the priests;' and Doeg the Edomite turneth round, and cometh himself against the priests, and putteth to death in that day eighty and five men bearing a linen ephod, 19 and Nob, the city of the priests, he hath smitten by the mouth of the sword, from man even unto woman, from infant even unto suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, by the mouth of the sword.
- Ps 7:14 : 14 Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
- Ps 10:2-3 : 2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised. 3 Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.
- Gen 6:4-5 : 4 The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they `are' the heroes, who, from of old, `are' the men of name. 5 And Jehovah seeth that abundant `is' the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;
- Gen 10:8-9 : 8 And Cush hath begotten Nimrod; 9 he hath begun to be a hero in the land; he hath been a hero in hunting before Jehovah; therefore it is said, `As Nimrod the hero `in' hunting before Jehovah.'
- Exod 22:9 : 9 for every matter of transgression, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, for any lost thing of which it is said that it is his; unto God cometh the matter of them both; he whom God doth condemn, he repayeth double to his neighbour.
- Ps 36:3-6 : 3 The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good. 4 Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.' 5 O Jehovah, in the heavens `is' Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness `is' unto the clouds. 6 Thy righteousness `is' as mountains of God, Thy judgments `are' a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.
- Ps 54:3 : 3 For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.
- Ps 59:7 : 7 Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'
- Ps 10:7 : 7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,
- Jer 9:8 : 8 A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,
- Mic 7:3 : 3 On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.
- Rom 1:30 : 30 evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
- 2 Tim 3:2 : 2 for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,
- 1 John 4:7-8 : 7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; 8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.