detained, &c. Probably from some ceremonial reason. Compare "shut up "(Jeremiah 36:5), or. "vow "(Acts 21:23-27), or "uncleanness" (Leviticus 13:4; Leviticus 13:11; Leviticus 13:21).
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1 Samuel 21:7
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.