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The Beginning of the End
the Edomite became an informer. Moved by ambition and greed and
by hatred of the priest who had reproved his sins, Doeg reported
David’s visit to Ahimelech in such a way that would ignite Saul’s
anger against the man of God. Insane with rage, Saul declared that
the whole family of the priest should die. Not only Ahimelech, but
the members of his father’s house—“eighty-five men who wore a
linen ephod”—were killed at the king’s command by the murderous
hand of Doeg. This is what Saul could do under the control of Satan.
This deed filled all Israel with horror. The king whom they had
chosen had committed this outrage. The ark was with them, but the
priests, to whom they went for spiritual counsel, were killed with
the sword.
What would come next?
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