1 Chronicles 12:39
Good News Translation
They spent three days there with David, feasting on the food and drink which their relatives had prepared for them.

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

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

New American Bible
They remained with David for three days, eating and drinking, for 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

eating and drinking

Genesis 26:30 And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:

Genesis 31:54 And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

2 Samuel 6:19 And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his own house.

2 Samuel 19:42 And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the king is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten any thing of the king's, or have any gifts been given us?

Context
David's Army Grows at Hebron
38All these men of war well appointed to fight, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel, were of one heart to make David king. 39And they were there with David three days eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.40Moreover they that were near them even as far as Issachar, and Zabulon, and Nephtali, brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, figs, raisins, wine, oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 12:38
All these men of war well appointed to fight, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel, were of one heart to make David king.

1 Chronicles 12:40
Moreover they that were near them even as far as Issachar, and Zabulon, and Nephtali, brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, figs, raisins, wine, oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.

1 Chronicles 12:38
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