Detained before the Lord— That is, not by force, but either on account of some vow, or for the making of some necessary expiation.
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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.