Doeg Betrays David
…the blessed David. He was a herdsman, but a bitter and barbarous man, with nothing genuine about him at all. He used to meet Saul in secret and report to him David’s deliberations and all his plans, and he promised that in due time he would also hand him over. And once, having seen the blessed David enter the house of God, when he ate the bread of the Presence, and meet Ahimelech the priest (1 Samuel 21:1–6), he reported to Saul that David had only a very few men with him, and that Saul could easily seize him by coming upon him, and overpower him without trouble (1 Samuel 22:9–10).
So Doeg betrayed him by reporting to Saul that he had met Ahimelech in the house of God; but the Master of all kept the prophet safe, and brought that perverse man’s attempt to nothing.
Greek
μακαρίου ∆αβὶδ, καὶ ἧν κτηνοτρόφος, πλὴν ἀνὴρ πικρὸς καὶ βάρβαρος καὶ οὐδαμόθεν ἔχων τὸ γνήσιον. Περιετύγχανε δὲ λάθρα τῷ Σαοὺλ, καὶ ἀπήγγελλεν αὐτῷ τὰς σκέψεις καὶ πάντα τὰ βουλεύματα· ἐπηγγέλλετο δὲ κατὰ καιροὺς καὶ παραδώσειν αὐτόν. Καὶ δήποτε θεασάμενος τὸν μακάριον ∆αβὶδ εἰσελθόντα εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅτε τοὺς ἄρτους τῆς προθέσεως ἔφαγεν, καὶ περιτυχὼν τῷ Ἀβιμέλεχ τῷ ἱερεῖ, ἀπήγγελλε τῷ Σαοὺλ, ὅτι μετ' ὀλίγων ἐστὶ παντελῶς, καὶ δύναται ῥᾳδίως αὐτὸν λαβεῖν ἐπελθὼν, καὶ εὐκόλως χειρώσασθαι. Οὐκοῦν προδέδωκε μὲν ὁ ∆ωὴκ ἀπαγγείλας τῷ Σαοὺλ, ὅτι συντετύχηκε τῷ Ἀβιμέλεχ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ· διέσωζε δὲ τὸν προφήτην ὁ τῶν ὅλων ∆εσπότης, καὶ τῆς ἐκείνου δυστροπίας μάταιον ἐποίει τὸ ἐγχείρημα.