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Jerome's Latin Vulgate

3 Regum 19:18

David autem fugiens salvatus est, et venit ad Samuel in Ramatha, et nuntiavit ei omnia quæ fecerat sibi Saul: et abierunt ipse et Samuel, et morati sunt in Najoth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Naioth;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - David;   Prophecy, prophet;   Samuel;   Saul, king of israel;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Naioth;   Prophet;   Schools of the Prophets;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Naioth;   Rama;   Holman Bible Dictionary - David;   Naioth;   Samuel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Naioth;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Ramah;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Naioth ;   Ramah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Naioth;   School;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Na'ioth;   Ra'mah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - David;   Naioth;   Prophecy;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eleazar ben Perata I.;   Naioth;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
David autem fugiens, salvatus est, et venit ad Samuel in Ramatha, et nuntiavit ei omnia quæ fecerat sibi Saul : et abierunt ipse et Samuel, et morati sunt in Najoth.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
David autem fugiens salvatus est et venit ad Samuel in Rama et nuntiavit ei omnia, quae fecerat sibi Saul. Et abierunt ipse et Samuel et morati sunt in Naioth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to Samuel: 1 Samuel 7:17, 1 Samuel 15:34, 1 Samuel 28:3, Psalms 116:11, James 5:16

Reciprocal: Psalms 56:8 - tellest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So David fled and escaped,.... Fled from his own house, and escaped falling into the hands of the messengers of Saul, and so of Saul himself:

and came to Samuel to Ramah; the place where Samuel dwelt: to him David chose to come, by whom he had been anointed king, that his faith might be strengthened by him with respect to the kingdom, which might be weakened by what had happened to him; and that he might have some advice and direction from him what he should do, and what course he should take in his present circumstances, and that he might receive some comfort from him under his present troubles:

and told him all that Saul had done to him; how he had spoken to his servants to kill him, had cast a javelin at him himself, and had sent messengers to his house to slay him:

and he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth; which was in or near to Ramah, as appears by 1 Samuel 19:19; which perhaps was a more retired place, and so chosen for the sake of conversation between them, or reckoned a more safe place. Here being a school or college of the prophets, might be a kind of an asylum, and where it might be thought Saul would not attempt to lay hands on David, should he know where he was; for if the Philistines gave no disturbance to the hill of God, and the prophets in it, 1 Samuel 10:5; it might be reasonably concluded Saul would not; so the Targum paraphrases it, "he and Samuel went and dwelt in the house of doctrine", or in the school, the school of the prophets. R. Abimi the Nothite, or Naiothite, mentioned in the Talmud i, is supposed k to be of this place; it is said l to be six miles from Jerusalem to the north.

i T. Bab. Sabbat, c. 1. fol. 17. 2. Avodah Zarah, c. 2. fol. 36. 1. k Aruch in voce נוות, fol. 98. 4. Juchasin, fol. 74. 2. l Adrichom, Theatrum T. S. fol. 28. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No such place as Naioth (or Nevaioth) is known, but the word means “dwellings.†Hence, it is considered that Naioth was the name of the collegiate residence of the prophets, in, or just outside, Ramah, to which Samuel removed with David from his own house, for greater safety, owing to the sanctity of the place and company.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 19:18. David fled, and escaped - to Samuel — He, no doubt, came to this holy man to ask advice; and Samuel thought it best to retain him for the present, with himself at Naioth, where it is supposed he had a school of prophets.


 
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