Detained — Not by force but by his choice; he fixed his abode there for that day; either because it was the sabbath — day; on which he might not proceed in his journey, or for the discharge of some vow. Before the Lord — That is, at the tabernacle. An Edomite — By birth, but he was proselyted to the Jewish religion.
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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.