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Revised Standard Version

1 Chronicles 12:22

For from day to day men kept coming to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   David;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Encamp;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   Encampment;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ziklag ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - David;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
At that time, men came day after day to help David until there was a great army, like an army of God.
Hebrew Names Version
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.
King James Version
For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.
English Standard Version
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.
New Century Version
Every day more men joined David, and his army became large, like the army of God.
New English Translation
Each day men came to help David until his army became very large.
Amplified Bible
For day by day men kept coming to David to help him, until there was a great army, like the army of God.
New American Standard Bible
For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army like the army of God.
World English Bible
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For at that time day by day there came to Dauid to helpe him, vntill it was a great hoste, like the hoste of God.
Legacy Standard Bible
For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great camp like the camp of God.
Berean Standard Bible
For at that time, men came to David day after day to help him, until he had a great army, like the army of God.
Contemporary English Version
Day after day, new men came to join David, and soon he had a large, powerful army.
Complete Jewish Bible
They helped David against the raiding band, for they were all strong, brave men who were commanders in the army.
Darby Translation
For day by day there came [men] to David to help him, until it was a great camp, like the camp of God.
Easy-to-Read Version
More and more men came every day to help David. So he had a large and powerful army.
George Lamsa Translation
For every day they went into the presence of David to eat food before him, for he loved them exceedingly.
Good News Translation
Almost every day new men joined David's forces, so that his army was soon enormous.
Lexham English Bible
Day in and day out they came to David to help him until there was a great army, like the army of God.
Literal Translation
for at the time they came daily to David, to help him, until it was a great army, like an army of God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And euery daye came there some to Dauid, to helpe him, till there was a greate hoost as an hoost of God.
American Standard Version
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.
Bible in Basic English
And from day to day more supporters came to David, till he had a great army like the army of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For at that tyme there came one or other to Dauid day by day to helpe him, vntil it was a great hoast, like the hoast of God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they helped David against the troop, for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
King James Version (1611)
For at that time day by day, there came to Dauid to helpe him, vntill it was a great hoste, like the hoste of God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For daily men came to David, till they amounted to a great force, as the force of God.
English Revised Version
For from day to day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also bi ech dai men camen to Dauid, for to helpe hym, til that the noumbre was maad greet as the oost of God.
Update Bible Version
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.
Webster's Bible Translation
For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of God.
New King James Version
For at that time they came to David day by day to help him, until it was a great army, like the army of God.
New Living Translation
Day after day more men joined David until he had a great army, like the army of God.
New Life Bible
Each day men came to David to help him. They came until there was a great army, like the army of God.
New Revised Standard
Indeed from day to day people kept coming to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for, from day to day, there came unto David, to help him, - until it was a great camp, like a camp of God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover day by day there came some to David to help him till they became a great number, like the army of God.
Young's Literal Translation
for at that time, day by day, they come in unto David to help him, till it is a great camp, like a camp of God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army like the army of God.

Contextual Overview

1 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in war. 2 They were bowmen, and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen. 3 The chief was Ahi-e'zer, then Jo'ash, both sons of Shema'ah of Gib'e-ah; also Je'zi-el and Pelet the sons of Az'maveth; Ber'acah, Jehu of An'athoth, 4 Ishma'iah of Gibeon, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jaha'ziel, Joha'nan, Joz'abad of Gede'rah, 5 Elu'zai, Jer'imoth, Beali'ah, Shemari'ah, Shephati'ah the Har'uphite; 6 Elka'nah, Isshi'ah, Az'arel, Jo-e'zer, and Jasho'be-am, the Ko'rahites; 7 and Joe'lah and Zebadi'ah, the sons of Jero'ham of Gedor. 8 From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains: 9 Ezer the chief, Obadi'ah second, Eli'ab third, 10 Mishman'nah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

day by day: 2 Samuel 2:2-4, 2 Samuel 3:1, Job 17:9

like the host of God: That is, says the Targumist, a very numerous army, like the army of the angel of God. Genesis 32:2, Joshua 5:14, Psalms 148:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:7 - let his hands 2 Chronicles 14:13 - his host

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For at that time, day by day, there came to David to help him,.... Particularly after the defeat of Saul by the Philistines, unto the time that David came to Hebron:

until it was a great host, like the host of God; the heavenly host, the angels; so the Targum.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 12:22. Like the host of God. — "That is, a very numerous army; like the army of the angel of God." - T.


 
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