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New American Standard Bible (1995)

1 Samuel 19:19

It was told Saul, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Jealousy;   Naioth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Synagogues;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Naioth;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Samuel;   Saul, king of israel;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Music;   Naioth;   Prophet;   Schools of the Prophets;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Music;   Naioth;   Poetry;   Rama;   Samuel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Education in Bible Times;   Naioth;   Samuel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Naioth;   Ramah;   Samuel;   Saul;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Naioth ;   Ramah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Music;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Naioth;   School;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Na'ioth;   Prophet;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophets;   Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bet Ha-Midrash;   Samuel, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When it was reported to Saul that David was at Naioth in Ramah,
Hebrew Names Version
It was told Sha'ul, saying, Behold, David is at Nayot in Ramah.
King James Version
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
Lexham English Bible
And it was told to Saul, "David is in Naioth in Ramah."
English Standard Version
And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."
New Century Version
Saul heard that David was in Naioth at Ramah.
New English Translation
It was reported to Saul saying, "David is at Naioth in Ramah."
Amplified Bible
Saul was told, "David is at Naioth in Ramah."
New American Standard Bible
But it was reported to Saul, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."
Geneva Bible (1587)
But one tolde Saul, saying, Beholde, Dauid is at Naioth in Ramah.
Legacy Standard Bible
And it was told to Saul, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."
Contemporary English Version
Someone told Saul, "David is at Prophets Village in Ramah."
Complete Jewish Bible
The news reached Sha'ul that David had been seen at the prophets' dormitory in Ramah.
Darby Translation
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth by Ramah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Saul heard that David was there in the camps near Ramah.
George Lamsa Translation
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Jonath which is in Ramtha.
Good News Translation
Saul was told that David was in Naioth in Ramah,
Literal Translation
And it was told to Saul, saying, Behold, David is in Naioth in Ramah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And it was tolde Saul: Beholde, Dauid is at Naioth in Ramath.
American Standard Version
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
Bible in Basic English
And word was given to Saul that David was at Naioth in Ramah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And one tolde Saul, saying: Beholde, Dauid is at Naioth in Rama.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it was told Saul, saying: 'Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.'
King James Version (1611)
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, Dauid is at Naioth in Ramah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is in Navath in Rama.
English Revised Version
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
Berean Standard Bible
When it was reported to Saul that David was at Naioth in Ramah,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe it was teld to Saul of men, seiynge, Lo! Dauid is in Naioth in Ramatha.
Young's Literal Translation
And it is declared to Saul, saying, `Lo, David [is] in Naioth in Ramah.'
Update Bible Version
And it was told Saul, saying, Look, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And it was told to Saul, saying, Behold, David [is] at Naioth in Ramah.
World English Bible
It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
New King James Version
Now it was told Saul, saying, "Take note, David is at Naioth in Ramah!"
New Living Translation
When the report reached Saul that David was at Naioth in Ramah,
New Life Bible
Saul was told, "See, David is at Naioth in Ramah."
New Revised Standard
Saul was told, "David is at Naioth in Ramah."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it was told Saul, saying, - Lo! David, is in Naioth, in Ramah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And it was told Saul by some, saying: Behold David is in Najoth, in Ramatha.
Revised Standard Version
And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Nai'oth in Ramah."
THE MESSAGE
Saul was told, "David's at Naioth in Ramah." He immediately sent his men to capture him. They saw a band of prophets prophesying with Samuel presiding over them. Before they knew it, the Spirit of God was on them, too, and they were ranting and raving right along with the prophets!

Contextual Overview

18 Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. 19 It was told Saul, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."20 Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing and presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul; and they also prophesied. 21 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. So Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 22 Then he himself went to Ramah and came as far as the large well that is in Secu; and he asked and said, "Where are Samuel and David?" And someone said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah." 23 He proceeded there to Naioth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, so that he went along prophesying continually until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 22:9, 1 Samuel 22:10, 1 Samuel 23:19, 1 Samuel 26:1, Proverbs 29:12

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:1 - fled 1 Corinthians 14:32 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
"Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you."
Genesis 19:1
Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Genesis 19:7
and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.
Genesis 19:11
They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.
Genesis 19:14
Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, "Up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
Genesis 19:16
But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, one said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away."
Genesis 19:19
"Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;
Genesis 19:22
"Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it was told Saul,.... By some officious persons who saw David at Ramah, and observed that he and Samuel went together to Naioth:

saying, behold, David [is] at Naioth, in Ramah; or near it; according to R. Isaiah, Ramah was the name of a hill, or mountain, so called from its height, and Naioth the name of a place on it; it signifies pastures and pleasant places, as meadows and pastures are; and here in the fields near Ramah was the house of doctrine, as the Targum calls it, or the school of the prophets, being pleasant and retired, and fit for study.


 
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