1 Samuel 22:4

and he leads them before the king of Moab, and they dwell with him all the days of David’s being in the fortress.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.

In Context

3And David goes from there to Mizpeh of Moab and says to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God does for me”;

5And the prophet Gad says to David, “You do not abide in a fortress, go, and you have entered the land of Judah for yourself”; and David goes and enters the forest of Hareth.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 23:1And they declare to David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are spoiling the threshing-floors.”

2 Samuel 24:11And David rises in the morning, and the word of YHWH has been to Gad the prophet, seer of David, saying,

1 Chronicles 12:16And [some] from the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold,

1 Chronicles 29:29And the matters of David the king, the first and the last, behold, they are written beside the matters of Samuel the seer, and beside the matters of Nathan the prophet, and beside the matters of Gad the seer,

Nehemiah 6:11And I say, “A man such as I—does he flee? And who as I, that goes into the temple, and lives? I do not go in.”

Isaiah 8:12“You do not say, A confederacy, || To all to whom this people says, A confederacy, || And its fear you do not fear, || Nor declare fearful.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 22:2-6

David in the Cave of Adullam. ( b. c. 1057.) 1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. 3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and… Read the whole commentary →

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