1 Samuel 30:11
◄  1 Samuel 30:11  ►
English Standard Version (© 2001)
They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate. They gave him water to drink,

King James Bible
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;

American Standard Version
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink.

Young's Literal Translation
and they find a man, an Egyptian, in the field, and take him unto David, and give to him bread, and he eateth, and they cause him to drink water,

1 Samuel 30:11 Additional Translations
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

On their further march they found an Egyptian lying exhausted upon the field; and having brought him to David, they gave him food and drink, namely "a slice of fig-cake (cf. 1 Samuel 25:18), and raisin-cakes to eat; whereupon his spirit of life returned (i.e., he came to himself again), as he had neither eaten bread nor drunk water for three days."

1 Samuel 30:11 Parallel Commentaries
Ate Bread Cause Country David Drink Eat Eateth Egyptian Open Provided Water
Ate Bread Cause Country David Drink Eat Eateth Egyptian Open Provided Water
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1 Samuel 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.
1 Samuel 30:12 and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.