ziphite

Updated: May 29, 2025

"Ay, and the scattered remnant has also a score against this murderous dog and self-seeking Ziphite." "What has he done, then?" "His men are over my house like moths in a cloth bale. No place is free from them. He sits in the room which should be mine, his great boots on my Spanish leather chairs, his pipe in his mouth, his wine-pot at his elbow, and his talk a hissing and an abomination.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Refugees

Now he governed and presided over the people alone, after the death of Eli the high priest, twelve years, and eighteen years together with Saul the king. And thus we have finished the history of Samuel. There was a man that was a Ziphite, of the city of Maon, who was rich, and had a vast number of cattle; for he fed a flock of three thousand sheep, and another flock of a thousand goats.

Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews