The One Year Bible - Day 138

Doeg the Edomite. You could presumably write a PhD on the psychology of this man but the simple truth is that he was looking for the favour of man rather than the favour of God. If he was God-fearing, he would have not spoken up to tell them where David was. What is interesting is that several times in the OT, the people who do these things are foreigners and represent people who exist today. The Edomites were friends and relatives of the Israelites because of their help when the Israelites were coming into the Promised Land but the point was they were not Israelites, they therefore might well represent people who are closely linked with the church or Christians but who are not genuinely believers. I guess they most closely represent religious people who have no faith and therefore are prone to make decisions from human understanding or praise from men and not from the things of God.