ESV Reformation Study Bible – 1 Sam 22:19
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1 Sam 22:19

22:19 both man and woman, child and infant. It is an irony extremely damaging to Saul’s image that the description of the total slaughter of the inhabitants of Nob, “the city of the priests,” matches almost verbatim the order that had been given for the slaughter of the Amalekites (15:3) that Saul failed to carry out.