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1 Samuel 22:4

Then he left them with the king of Moab. They stayed with him all the time that David was in his safe place.

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.
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 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 So David left there and ran to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all those of his father's house heard about it, they went down there to him. 2 Then everyone who was in trouble, everyone who owed money, and everyone who was not happy with the way he was living, came together to him. He became their captain. There were about 400 men with him. 3 David went from there to Mizpah of Moab. He said to the king of Moab, "I beg of you, let my father and mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me." 4 Then he left them with the king of Moab. They stayed with him all the time that David was in his safe place. 5 The man who told what will happen in the future, Gad, said to David, "Do not stay in this strong place. Leave, and go into the land of Judah." So David left and went among the trees of Hereth.

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
Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. We ask of you, let us travel into the desert three days, to give a gift on an altar in worship to the Lord our God. Or He may send death to us by disease or by the sword."
Exodus 15:22
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea. They went into the Desert of Shur. They went three days in the desert and found no water.
Exodus 19:11
And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day people will see the Lord come down on Mount Sinai.
Exodus 19:15
He said to the people, "Be ready for the third day. Do not go near a woman."
Leviticus 7:17
But what is left of the flesh of the gift until the third day will be burned with fire.
Numbers 10:33
So they traveled for three days from the mountain of the Lord with the special box with the Law of the Lord in front of them looking for a place for them to rest.
Numbers 19:12
He must clean himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day. Then he will be clean. But if he does not clean himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will be unclean.
Numbers 19:19
The clean person must put the water on whoever is unclean, on the third day and on the seventh day. He will make him clean on the seventh day. He will wash his clothes and wash himself in water, and will be clean at evening.
Numbers 31:19
Stay away from the tents for seven days. If you have killed any person or have touched any dead body, you must make yourself and those you have taken clean, on the third day and on the seventh day.
Joshua 1:11
"Go among the tents and tell the people, ‘Gather together the things you will need. For within three days you will cross this Jordan to go in to take the land the Lord your God is giving you for your own.'"

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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