1 Chronicles 12:39

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 26:30 : 30 So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.
  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
  • 2 Sam 6:19 : 19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home.
  • 2 Sam 19:42 : 42 All the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel,“Because the king is our close relative! Why are you so upset about this? Have we eaten at the king’s expense? Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 12:40
    79%

    40Also their neighbors, from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, were bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. There were large supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine, olive oil, beef, and lamb, for Israel was celebrating.

  • 2 Sam 3:20
    75%

    20When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.

  • 1 Sam 30:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.

    12They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

  • 2 Sam 17:27-29
    3 verses
    74%

    27When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim

    28brought bedding, basins, and pottery utensils. They also brought food for David and all who were with him, including wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

    29honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said,“The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.”

  • 1 Chr 12:38
    73%

    38All these men were warriors who were ready to march. They came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel by acclamation; all the rest of the Israelites also were in agreement that David should become king.

  • Judg 19:4
    73%

    4His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.

  • Gen 26:30
    72%

    30So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.

  • 1 Sam 30:16
    72%

    16So he took David down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 12:1
    70%

    1Warriors Who Joined David at Ziklag These were the men who joined David in Ziklag, when he was banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish.(They were among the warriors who assisted him in battle.

  • 2 Sam 16:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1David Receives Gifts from Ziba When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, and a container of wine.

    2The king asked Ziba,“Why did you bring these things?” Ziba replied,“The donkeys are for the king’s family to ride on, the loaves of bread and the summer fruit are for the attendants to eat, and the wine is for those who get exhausted in the desert.”

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    70%

    21Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

  • Judg 19:6
    70%

    6So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. Then the girl’s father said to the man,“Why not stay another night and have a good time!”

  • Judg 19:21
    69%

    21So he brought him to his house and fed the donkeys. They washed their feet and had a meal.

  • Matt 12:3
    69%

    3He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–

  • 1 Sam 25:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12So David’s servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David all these things.

    13Then David instructed his men,“Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.

  • 1 Chr 11:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the LORD

    19and said,“God forbid that I should do this! Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?” Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.

  • 2 Sam 2:3
    69%

    3David also brought along the men who were with him, each with his family. They settled in the cities of Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 3:35
    69%

    35Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying,“God will punish me severely if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

  • Judg 14:11
    69%

    11When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company.

  • 1 Sam 17:17
    69%

    17Jesse said to his son David,“Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly to the camp to your brothers.

  • Dan 1:5
    69%

    5So the king assigned them a daily ration from his royal delicacies and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service.

  • 2 Sam 6:19
    69%

    19He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home.

  • 1 Chr 29:22
    69%

    22They held a feast before the LORD that day and celebrated. Then they designated Solomon, David’s son, as king a second time; before the LORD they anointed him as ruler and Zadok as priest.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    69%

    16Some from Benjamin and Judah also came to David’s stronghold.

  • Luke 6:3
    68%

    3Jesus answered them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–

  • 1 Chr 11:10
    68%

    10David’s Warriors These were the leaders of David’s warriors who, together with all Israel, stood courageously with him in his kingdom by installing him as king, in keeping with the LORD’s message concerning Israel.

  • 1 Chr 12:21-23
    3 verses
    68%

    21They helped David fight against raiding bands, for all of them were warriors and leaders in the army.

    22Each day men came to help David until his army became very large.

    23Support for David in Hebron The following is a record of the armed warriors who came with their leaders and joined David in Hebron in order to make David king in Saul’s place, in accordance with the LORD’s decree:

  • 2 Sam 11:13
    68%

    13Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

  • 2 Sam 5:3
    68%

    3When all the leaders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the LORD. They designated David as king over Israel.

  • 1 Chr 16:3
    68%

    3He then handed out to each Israelite man and woman a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

  • Gen 43:25
    68%

    25They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival at noon, for they had heard that they were to have a meal there.

  • Judg 19:19
    68%

    19We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”

  • Gen 43:34
    68%

    34He gave them portions of the food set before him, but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk.

  • 1 Kgs 1:25
    68%

    25For today he has gone down and sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. At this moment they are having a feast in his presence, and they have declared,‘Long live King Adonijah!’

  • 2 Sam 16:14
    68%

    14The king and all the people who were with him arrived exhausted at their destination, where David refreshed himself.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    68%

    31and Hebron; and for those in whatever other places David and his men had traveled.

  • Gen 18:8
    67%

    8Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

  • 2 Sam 23:16
    67%

    16So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate. They carried it back to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the LORD

  • 2 Sam 20:4
    67%

    4Then the king said to Amasa,“Call the men of Judah together for me in three days, and you be present here with them too.”

  • 1 Chr 11:3
    67%

    3When all the leaders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD. They anointed David king over Israel, in keeping with the LORD’s message that came through Samuel.