1 Samuel 29:11
Good News Translation
So David and his men started out early the following morning to go back to Philistia, and the Philistines went on to Jezreel.

New Revised Standard Version
So David set out with his men early in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

Contemporary English Version
David and his men got up early in the morning and headed back toward Philistia, while the Philistines left for Jezreel.

New American Bible
So David and his warriors left early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines went on up to Jezreel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set forward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines: and the Philistines went up to Jezrahel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set forward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines: and the Philistines went up to Jezrahel.

And the Philistines

1 Samuel 29:1 Now all the troops of the Philistines were gathered together to Aphec: and Israel also encamped by the fountain, which is in Jezrahel.

Joshua 19:18 And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casaloth and Sunem,

2 Samuel 4:4 And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son that was lame of his feet: for he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan from Jezrahel. And his nurse took him up and fled: and as she made haste to flee, he fell and became lame: and his name was Miphiboseth.

1.) informs us that it was pretty near Maximianopolis. The Jerusalem Itinerary places it ten miles west from Scythopolis; and William of Tyre says it was called Little Gerinum in his time, and that there was a fine fountain in it, whose waters fell into the Jordan near Scythopolis.

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Context
The Philistines Reject David
10Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy lord, who came with thee: and when you are up before day, and it shall begin to be light, go on your way. 11So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set forward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines: and the Philistines went up to Jezrahel.
Cross References
Joshua 15:56
Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,

1 Samuel 29:10
Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy lord, who came with thee: and when you are up before day, and it shall begin to be light, go on your way.

1 Samuel 30:1
Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day, the Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire,

1 Samuel 29:10
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