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It was Doeg who \u201cblew the whistle\u201d on the priests of Nob, stirring Saul to call for their deaths. Two unanticipated, perhaps even counterintuitive, details stand out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First is that Saul\u2019s officers refused to participate in wiping out the city of priests. \u201cBut the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord\u201d (17).\u00a0 Indeed, the Talmud identifies these officers as Abner ben Ner, the chief of staff, and Amasa ben Yeter, another ranking officer, and states that their refusal stemmed from a legal deliberation that led them to conclude that the order was illegal and had to be defied* (See Rashi ad loc.).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abner, who remained loyal to Saul, would eventually kill Amasa, whose loyalty shifted to David (see 2 Samuel 2:19 ff.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second is the description of the manner in which Doeg implemented Saul\u2019s order: \u201cBoth men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep [were put to death] with the edge of the sword\u201d (19). This is surprising, even frightening, in its tone and detail, the more so when compared with the instructions Samuel issued to Saul to annihilate Amalek: \u201cBut slay both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys\u201d (15:3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The irony that Saul had failed to implement those earlier instructions (see chapter 15) was not lost on the Sages, who declared that \u201cNob did not deserve to be treated like Amalek\u201d (Qohelet Rabba 7:16).**<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*See Moshe Sokolow: \u201cDisobedience to Military Orders,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 15 (2013), 144-153.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">**Moshe Sokolow: \u201cAutonomy vs. Heteronomy in Moral Reasoning,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hazon Nahum<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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