And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
Ver. 19. And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he.] Josephus saith that he razed it, and burned it, and left the tabernacle of God, as much as lay in him, without a place, or priests to minister.
Both men and women, children and sucklings.] All of them to the number of three hundred and eighty-five, saith Josephus; all whom Beda reckoneth among the martyrs: and Osiander maketh this infanticide a type and figure of our Saviour's flight into Egypt.