Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Chronicles 12:39
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They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.
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And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
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They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.
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And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren had made preparation for them.
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1 Chronicles 12
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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