John Gill Commentary 1 Samuel 22:9

"Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub." — 1 Samuel 22:9 (ASV)

Then answered Doeg the Edomite
Josephus ^F4 calls him a Syrian, and so the Septuagint version; see (1 Samuel 21:7); being full of enmity to David, and willing to curry favour with Saul, and eager of further preferment, which Saul seemed to promise; and being more forward than the rest of his servants, prevented them and spoke first:

(which was set over the servants of Saul) :
over his herdsmen; see (1 Samuel 21:7);

and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob to Ahimelech the son of
Ahitub ;
in imitation of Saul, he calls David by way of contempt the son of Jesse; and signifies that what he had to say of him was not by report, but he himself was an eyewitness of his coming to Nob, a city of the priests, and to Ahimelech the high priest there, and of what passed between them.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F4: Antiqu. l. 6. c. 12. sect. 1, 4.