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1 Chronicles 12:39
1 Chronicles 12:39 is verse 39 of 1 Chronicles chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.
King James Version
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.
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1 Chronicles 12:37–40 · Berean Standard Bible
37 And from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh there: 120,000 armed with every kind of weapon of war.
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.
39 They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 26:30So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
Genesis 31:54Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
2 Samuel 6:19Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
2 Samuel 19:42And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”