Doeg the Edomite

He became increasingly devoted only to himself.

Doeg, come with me.

Doeg, you were right.

I am but your humble servant, my king.

It was not an original thought with me.

Almost no one tells him the truth.

They just say what pleases him.

None is worse than Doeg.

They're up to no good.

When we studied Saul last year, there was a guy named Doeg who he was the guy that Saul would always kill.

I mean, he would always send him to kill somebody.

He's the one that went and killed all those priests, even though they were innocent of what he was accusing them of.

He was a murderer, and he was Doeg the Edomite.

And when we see these nations represented, they're pretty much God-haters.

When Israel came out of Egypt, they had to pass through their lands.

Ahimelech the priest gave him food and a sword and inquired of David on his behalf.

Dog, King Saul's chief herdsman, witnessed the whole thing and informed Saul about the priest.

Saul confronted Ahimelech, accusing him of conspiring with David, and ordered Dog to kill him and 85 other priests and their entire families.

Only Abathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, escaped and fled to David.

When he told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord, David exclaimed, I knew it.

When I saw Doge there that day, I knew he was sure to tell Saul.

Now I have caused the death of all your father's family.

What an admission.

They give him food and things like that.

And when Saul finds out about it, He sends Doeg the Edomite, one of his soldiers, and they slaughter everyone in Nof.

Not just killing the Kohanim, like you're siding with the enemies of the king.

They wipe out everyone.

Everyone's trying to, you know, get their piece of Saul's pie sort of thing.

And so what happens is Doeg, the Edomite, reports to Saul, I know where he is.

He's right here.

And so he's being turned over by his own people.

We begin with Psalms 52, 53, and 54.

Psalm 52, to the choir master, a maskill of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

Your tongue plots destruction like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

You'll remember him.

He's called Doeg the Edomite.

And you'll notice in verse 18, Doeg the Edomite smites the priests at Nob at Saul's behest.

And what we see happening here is flesh.

Flesh is working through Israel's political order in its hatred of their Messiah to bring down the Aaronic priesthood.

So do yourselves a favor and think about your futures.

Now, sitting there, along with all of Saul's servants, was Doeg, the Edomite, the man whom David had recognized while visiting Ahimelech in Nob.

And Doeg piped up and said to Saul, and my friend Derek is going to be helping me with the voice of Doeg.

I saw the son of Jesse going to Noam, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitab.

And he inquired of the Lord for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine.

Now, the Bible doesn't say why Doeg was so quick to rat out Ahimelech, but you can imagine Doeg thinking that if Saul wasn't given someone to focus his anger on, Saul might just make an example of one of them standing on the hill that day.

I mean, Saul was sitting there surrounded by soldiers with a spear in his hand after all.

And if that had been Doeg's plan, well, he succeeded in spades.

In Psalms, in Psalm 52 and following, David has more difficulty from Saul.

And specifically, Doeg the Edomite seems to come into play.

The guy that murdered the priests back when Saul was persecuting David, like around 1 Samuel 21 or so.

And then you go back and look at Psalm 3, and that's a Psalm that seems to deal with Absalom.