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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Samuel 22:4

He presented them to the king of Mo'av, and they lived with him as long as David remained in his stronghold.

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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
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 David left there and took refuge in the Cave of ‘Adulam. When his brothers and the rest of his father's family heard of it, they went down to see him there. 2 Then all the people in distress, in debt or embittered began gathering around him, and he became their leader; there were about four hundred with him. 3 David went from there to Mitzpeh of Mo'av and said to the king of Mo'av, "Please let my father and mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me." 4 He presented them to the king of Mo'av, and they lived with him as long as David remained in his stronghold. 5 But the prophet Gad said to David, "Don't stay in the stronghold. Leave, and go to the land of Y'hudah." So David left and went to the Forest of Heret.

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
They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the desert, so that we can sacrifice to Adonai our God. Otherwise, he may strike us with a plague or with the sword."
Exodus 15:22
Moshe led Isra'el onward from the Sea of Suf. They went out into the Shur Desert; but after traveling three days in the desert, they had found no water.
Exodus 19:11
and prepare for the third day. For on the third day, Adonai will come down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people.
Exodus 19:15
He said to the people, "Prepare for the third day; don't approach a woman."
Leviticus 7:17
However, what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day is to be burned up completely.
Numbers 10:33
So they set out from Adonai 's mountain and traveled for three days. Ahead of them on this three-day journey went the ark of Adonai 's covenant, searching for a new place to stop.
Numbers 19:12
He must purify himself with [these ashes] on the third and seventh days; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
Numbers 19:19
The clean person will sprinkle the unclean person on the third and seventh days. On the seventh day he will purify him; then he will wash his clothes and himself in water; and he will be clean at evening.
Numbers 31:19
Pitch your tents outside the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed a person or touched the corpse of someone slain, purify yourselves on the third and seventh days, you and your captives.
Joshua 1:11
to go through the camp and order the people, "Prepare provisions, because in three days you will cross this Yarden to go in and take possession of the land Adonai your God is giving you."

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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