Category:Doeg

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Doeg - Fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul's flocks (1 Samuel 21:7). At the command of Saul he slew the high priest Ahimelech (q.v.) at Nob, together with all the priests to the number of eighty-five persons. (Compare Psalms 52:1, title.)