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Douay-Rheims Bible

1 Samuel 22:4

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.

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 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.
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 therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of Odollam. And when his brethren, and all his father’s house, had heard of it, they went down to him thither. 2 And all that were in distress, and oppressed with debt, and under affliction of mind, gathered themselves unto him: and he became their prince, and there were with him about four hundred men. 3 And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do for me. 4 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. 5 And Gad the prophet said to David: Abide not in the hold, depart, and go into the land of Juda. And David departed, and came into the forest of Haret.

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 said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.
Exodus 15:22
And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.
Exodus 19:11
And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.
Exodus 19:15
He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.
Leviticus 7:17
But whatsoever shall be found on the third day shall be consumed with fire.
Numbers 10:33
So they marched from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them, for three days providing a place for the camp.
Numbers 19:12
Shall be sprinkled with this water on the third day, and on the seventh, and so shall be cleansed. If he were not sprinkled on the third day, he cannot be cleansed on the seventh.
Numbers 19:19
And in this manner he that is clean shall purify the unclean on the third and on the seventh day. And being expiated the seventh day, he shall wash both himself and his garments, and be unclean until the evening.
Numbers 31:19
And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the seventh day.
Joshua 1:11
Prepare your victuals: for after the third day you shall pass over the Jordan, and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give 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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