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Hebrew Names Version

2 Samuel 3:20

So Aviner came to David to Hevron, and twenty men with him. David made Aviner and the men who were with him a feast.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abner;   Conspiracy;   Government;   Treason;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Michal;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abner;   Palestine;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Feast;   Rizpah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lord's Supper. (I.);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Dwelling;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Alliances;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alliance;   Joab;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abner;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Covenant;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Abner and twenty men came to David at Hebron, David held a banquet for him and his men.
King James Version
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
Lexham English Bible
Then Abner came to David in Hebron and with him were twenty men. David had prepared a feast for Abner and for the men who were with him.
English Standard Version
When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
New Century Version
Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron. There David prepared a feast for them.
New English Translation
When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.
Amplified Bible
So Abner came to David at Hebron, and [brought] twenty men along with him. And David prepared a feast for Abner and the men with him.
New American Standard Bible
Then Abner and twenty men with him came to David at Hebron. And David held a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Abner came to Dauid to Hebron, hauing twentie men with him, and Dauid made a feast vnto Abner, and to the men that were with him.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Abner and twenty men with him came to David at Hebron. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
Contemporary English Version
Abner took twenty soldiers with him, and when they got to Hebron, David gave a big feast for them.
Complete Jewish Bible
When Avner came to David in Hevron he brought twenty men with him. David held a feast for Avner and his men.
Darby Translation
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a repast.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Abner came up to David at Hebron. Abner brought 20 men with him. David gave a party for Abner and for all the men who came with him.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Abner came to David at Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men who were with him a great feast.
Good News Translation
When Abner came to David at Hebron with twenty men, David gave a feast for them.
Literal Translation
And Abner came to David, to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made a feast for Abner and for the men with him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now whan Abner came to Hebron vnto Dauid, and twety men with him, Dauid made them a feast.
American Standard Version
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
Bible in Basic English
So Abner, with twenty men, came to Hebron, to David. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Abner came to Dauid to Hebron, hauing twentie men with him: & Dauid made him & the men that were with him a feast.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
King James Version (1611)
So Abner came to Dauid to Hebron, and twenty men with him: and Dauid made Abner, and the men that were with him, a feast.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Abenner came to David to Chebron, and with him twenty men: and David made for Abenner and his men with him a banquet of wine.
English Revised Version
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
Berean Standard Bible
When Abner and twenty of his men came to David at Hebron, David held a feast for them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he cam to Dauid in Ebron with twenti men. And Dauid made a feeste to Abner, and to the men that camen with hym.
Young's Literal Translation
and Abner cometh in unto David, to Hebron, and with him twenty men, and David maketh for Abner, and for the men who [are] with him, a banquet.
Update Bible Version
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Abner came to David in Hebron, and twenty men with him: and David made Abner and the men that [were] with him, a feast.
World English Bible
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
New King James Version
So Abner and twenty men with him came to David at Hebron. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
New Living Translation
When Abner and twenty of his men came to Hebron, David entertained them with a great feast.
New Life Bible
Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron. And David made a special supper for Abner and the men who were with him.
New Revised Standard
When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So, when Abner came in unto David, in Hebron, and, with him, twenty men, David made, for Abner, and for the men who were with him, a banquet.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he came to David in Hebron with twenty men: and David made a feast for Abner, and his men that came with him.
Revised Standard Version
When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
THE MESSAGE
When Abner and the twenty men who were with him met with David in Hebron, David laid out a feast for them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Abner and twenty men with him came to David at Hebron. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

Contextual Overview

7 Now Sha'ul had a concubine, whose name was Ritzpah, the daughter of Ayah: and [Ish-Boshet] said to Aviner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine? 8 Then was Aviner very angry for the words of Ish-Boshet, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Yehudah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Sha'ul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman. 9 God do so to Aviner, and more also, if, as the LORD has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him; 10 to transfer the kingdom from the house of Sha'ul, and to set up the throne of David over Yisra'el and over Yehudah, from Dan even to Be'er-Sheva. 11 He could not answer Aviner another word, because he feared him. 12 Aviner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying [also], Make your league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Yisra'el to you. 13 He said, Well; I will make a league with you; but one thing I require of you: that is, you shall not see my face, except you first bring Mikhal, Sha'ul's daughter, when you come to see my face. 14 David sent messengers to Ish-Boshet, Sha'ul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Mikhal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Pelishtim. 15 Ish-Boshet sent, and took her from her husband, even from Palti'el the son of Layish. 16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bachurim. Then said Aviner to him, Go, return: and he returned.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

David: Genesis 26:30, Genesis 31:54, Esther 1:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:8 - feast 2 Samuel 3:13 - Michal 1 Chronicles 12:17 - If ye be come

Cross-References

Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Genesis 2:23
The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Genesis 5:29
and he named him Noach, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."
Genesis 16:11
The angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Yishma'el, because the LORD has heard your affliction.
Genesis 35:18
It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni, but his father named him Binyamin.
Exodus 2:10
The child grew, and she brought him to Par`oh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moshe, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
1 Samuel 1:20
It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Shemu'el, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.
Matthew 1:21
She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Yeshua, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."
Matthew 1:23
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, And shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanu'el;" Which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
Acts 17:26
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the eretz, having determined appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him,.... Before he went privately to him, and conferred with him, but now, having gained so many of the Israelites in favour of David, he appeared more publicly and brought perhaps some of the principal of the nation with film, to join in the league and covenant to be made:

and David made Abner and the men that [were] with him a feast; not only in honour to them, as great personages, especially Abner, and as expressive of reconciliation; but as a token of the covenant they were entering into, and for the confirmation of it; it being usual to have feasts when covenants were made; see Genesis 26:28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Twenty men - These were doubtless his official suite as Ish-bosheth’s envoy to conduct Michal to David, but privy and consenting to his intrigue with David. It is remarkable that not a word should be said about the meeting of David and Michal.


 
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