1 Chronicles 12:39
New International Version
The men spent three days there with David, eating and drinking, for their families had supplied provisions for them.

New Living Translation
They feasted and drank with David for three days, for preparations had been made by their relatives for their arrival.

English Standard Version
And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them.

Berean Standard Bible
They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.

King James Bible
And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.

New King James Version
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had prepared for them.

New American Standard Bible
They were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen had prepared for them.

NASB 1995
They were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen had prepared for them.

NASB 1977
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their kinsmen had prepared for them.

Legacy Standard Bible
They were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their relatives had prepared for them.

Amplified Bible
They were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their relatives had prepared for them.

Christian Standard Bible
They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.

American Standard Version
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren had made preparation for them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, because their brethren had given them their provisions.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they were there three days eating and drinking, for their brethren had made preparations.

Contemporary English Version
The soldiers stayed in Hebron three days, eating and drinking what their relatives had prepared for them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were there with David three days eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.

English Revised Version
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had made preparation for them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They ate and drank with David for three days because their relatives [in Judah] had provided enough for them.

Good News Translation
They spent three days there with David, feasting on the food and drink which their relatives had prepared for them.

International Standard Version
They spent three days eating and drinking with David, since their relatives had supplied provisions for them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren had made preparation for them.

Literal Standard Version
and they are there, with David, three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers have prepared for them.

Majority Standard Bible
They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.

New American Bible
They remained with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their relatives had prepared for them.

NET Bible
They spent three days feasting there with David, for their relatives had given them provisions.

New Revised Standard Version
They were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their kindred had provided for them.

New Heart English Bible
They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.

World English Bible
They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.

Young's Literal Translation
and they are there, with David, three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren have prepared for them.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
David's Army Grows at Hebron
38All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David king. 39They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them. 40And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.…

Cross References
1 Chronicles 12:38
All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David king.

1 Chronicles 12:40
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen--abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brothers had prepared for them.

eating and drinking

Genesis 26:30
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

Genesis 31:54
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

2 Samuel 6:19
And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.

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(39-40) The coronation feast. Comp. 1Kings 1:9; 1Kings 1:19; 1Kings 1:25; the usurpation of Adonijah.

Their brethren.--Fellow tribesmen of Judah; especially those living at and around Hebron.

Had prepared victuals.--2Chronicles 35:14.

Verse 39. - The supplies for eating and drinking were no doubt found chiefly in kind. To sum the number of the men here described, we should require to allow for those of Issachar and of the Aaronites and Zadokites added to the Levites (vers. 26-28). That grand total will not amount to the six hundred thousand of Exodus 12:37.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They spent
וַיִּהְיוּ־ (way·yih·yū-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

three
שְׁלוֹשָׁ֔ה (šə·lō·wō·šāh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

days
יָמִ֣ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

there
שָׁ֤ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

eating
אֹכְלִ֖ים (’ō·ḵə·lîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

and drinking
וְשׁוֹתִ֑ים (wə·šō·w·ṯîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

with
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

David,
דָּוִיד֙ (dā·wîḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

for their relatives
לָהֶ֖ם (lā·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 251: A brother, )

had provided for them.
הֵכִ֥ינוּ (hê·ḵî·nū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3559: To be erect


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