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Bishop's Bible

1 Samuel 22:4

And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the whyle that Dauid kept him selfe in the holde.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Doubting;   Jesse;   Mizpah;   Moabites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahimelech;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hold;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Boaz;   Ithmah;   Ithra;   Joab;   Moab;   Nahash;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hold;   Mizpah, Mizpeh;   Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jesse;   Nob;   Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Moab, Moabites ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ab;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hold;   Jesse;   Moab;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Caves in Palestine;   Nahash;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.
Hebrew Names Version
He brought them before the king of Mo'av: and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
King James Version
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
Lexham English Bible
So he brought them before the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the days David was in the stronghold.
English Standard Version
And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
New Century Version
So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was hiding in the stronghold.
New English Translation
So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time that David was in the stronghold.
Amplified Bible
Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
New American Standard Bible
Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he brought them before the King of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the while that Dauid was in the holde.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the fortress.
Contemporary English Version
So he brought his parents to the king of Moab, and they stayed with him while David was in hiding.
Complete Jewish Bible
He presented them to the king of Mo'av, and they lived with him as long as David remained in his stronghold.
Darby Translation
And he brought them before the king of Moab; and they abode with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
Easy-to-Read Version
So David left his parents with the king of Moab. They stayed with the king of Moab as long as David was at the fort.
George Lamsa Translation
And he left them with the king of Moab; and they dwelt with him all the time that David was in Mizpeh.
Good News Translation
So David left his parents with the king of Moab, and they stayed there as long as David was hiding out in the cave.
Literal Translation
And he settled them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the days David was in the stronghold.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he lefte them before the kynge of ye Moabites, so that they remayned by him, as longe as Dauid was in the castell.
American Standard Version
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
Bible in Basic English
And he took them to the king of Moab and they went on living with him while David was in his safe place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he brought them before the king of Moab; and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
King James Version (1611)
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that Dauid was in the hold.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he persuaded the King of Moab, and they dwell with him continually, while David was in the hold.
English Revised Version
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
Berean Standard Bible
So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he lefte hem bifor the face of the kyng of Moab; and thei dwelliden at hym in alle daies, `in whiche Dauid was in `the forselet, ether stronghold.
Young's Literal Translation
and he leadeth them before the king of Moab, and they dwell with him all the days of David's being in the fortress.
Update Bible Version
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
World English Bible
He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
New King James Version
So he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
New Living Translation
So David's parents stayed in Moab with the king during the entire time David was living in his stronghold.
New Life Bible
Then he left them with the king of Moab. They stayed with him all the time that David was in his safe place.
New Revised Standard
He left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he set them before the king of Moab, - and they dwelt with him, all the days that David was in the fortress.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he left them under thc eyes of the king of Moab, and they abode with him all the days that David was in the hold.
Revised Standard Version
And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

Contextual Overview

1 Dauid therfore departed thence, & escaped to the caue Adullam: Whe his brethren also & his fathers house heard it, they went downe thyther to him. 2 And there gathered vnto him all men that were in combraunce, and in det, and troubled in their mindes, & he became a captayne ouer them: And there were with him vpon a foure hundred men. 3 And Dauid went thence to Mispah in the land of Moab, and sayde vnto the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother (I pray thee) come foorth vnto you, till I knowe what God wyl do for me. 4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the whyle that Dauid kept him selfe in the holde. 5 And the prophete Gad sayde vnto Dauid: Abyde not in the hold, but depart & go into the land of Iuda. Then Dauid departed, & came into the forest Hareth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the hold: 2 Samuel 23:13, 2 Samuel 23:14, 1 Chronicles 12:16, Gad, 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Chronicles 21:9, 1 Chronicles 29:29, 2 Chronicles 29:25, depart, 1 Samuel 23:1-6, Nehemiah 6:11, Psalms 11:1, Isaiah 8:12-14, David departed, Matthew 10:23

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 10:2 - as his father 1 Timothy 5:4 - learn

Cross-References

Exodus 5:3
And they sayde, The God of the Hebrewes is called ouer vs: let vs go we pray thee three dayes iourney into the desert, and do sacrifice vnto the Lorde our God: lest he smyte vs with pestilence or with the sworde.
Exodus 15:22
And so Moyses brought Israel from the redde sea, and they went out into the wyldernesse of Sur: and they went three dayes long in the wildernesse, and founde no waters.
Exodus 19:11
And be redy against the thirde day, for the thirde day the Lorde wyll come downe in the sight of all the people vppon mount Sinai.
Exodus 19:15
And he sayd vnto the people: be redy agaynst the thirde day, and come not at [your] wyues.
Leviticus 7:17
But as muche of the offered fleshe as remayneth vnto the thirde day, shalbe burnt with fire.
Numbers 10:33
And they departed from the mount of the Lorde three dayes iourney, and the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde went before them in ye three dayes iourney, to search out a resting place for the.
Numbers 19:12
And he shall purifie hym selfe with this water the thirde day, & the seuenth day he shalbe cleane: But if he purifie not hym selfe the thirde day, then the seuenth day he shall not be cleane.
Numbers 19:19
And the cleane person shall sprinckle vpon the vncleane the thirde day and the seuenth day: And the seuenth day he shall purifie hym selfe, and washe his clothes, & bathe hym selfe in water, and shalbe cleane at euen.
Numbers 31:19
And ye shall remayne without the hoast seuen dayes, all that haue kylled any person, and all that haue touched any dead body, and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the thirde day and the seuenth.
Joshua 1:11
Go thorowe the middes of the hoaste, and comaunde the people, saying, Prepare you vitailes: for after three daies ye shal passe ouer this Iordane, to go in and enioye the lande, which the Lorde your God geueth you, to possesse it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he brought them before the king of Moab,.... Having leave from him for it, and left them with him; so the Targum,

"caused them to remain before him:''

and they dwelt with him all the whole time that David was in the hold; either in the cave of Adullam, as some think; or rather at Mizpeh in Moab, which might be a fortified place; or the sense may be, while he was in any hold in those parts, as he might go from one to another; what became of David's parents afterwards, we nowhere else read. The Jews z say the king of Moab slew his father and his mother, and his brethren, all but one, whom Nahash the Ammonite preserved; and is the kindness David speaks of, 2 Samuel 10:2; and if this was the case, now it was that his father and mother forsook him, and God took him up, Psalms 27:10.

z Bemnidbar Rabba, sect. 14. fol. 212. 1. Tanchuma apud Jarchium in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He brought them before ... - The Septuagint renders it “he persuaded (the face of) the king.”

In the hold - Where David was after he left the cave of Adullam, probably in the land of Moab.

The phrase “all the while,” would indicate that David sojourned a considerable time in Moab.


 
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