So the king ordered Doeg, "You turn and strike down the priests!" And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:18Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD--a boy wearing a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 2:31Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
Psalm 78:64His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Treasury of Scripture
And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
Doeg
1 Samuel 22:9
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
he fell
2 Chronicles 24:21
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
fourscore.
1 Samuel 2:30-33,36
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed…
1 Samuel 3:12-14
In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end…
a linen ephod
1 Samuel 2:28
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
Exodus 28:40
And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
