1 Samuel 27 · Verse 3

1 Samuel 27:3

And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
1 Samuel 27:3, King James Version

1 Samuel 27:3 in other translations

BSBDavid and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
WEBDavid lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
ASVAnd David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
YLTand David dwelleth with Achish in Gath, he and his men, each one with his household, even David and his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelitess.
DARBYAnd David abode with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household; David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
BBEAnd David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.
WebsterAnd David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess Nabal's wife.

What does 1 Samuel 27:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 27:2-3

2-3. Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath--The popular description of this king's family creates a presumption that he was a different king from the reigning sovereign on David's first visit to Gath. Whether David had received a special invitation from him or a mere permission to enter his territories, cannot be determined. It is probable that the former was the case. From the universal notoriety given to the feud…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 Every man with his household - So it appears that the men who consorted with David had wives and families. David and his company resembled a tribe of the wandering Arabs.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 27:1-7

Unbelief is a sin that easily besets even good men, when without are fightings, and within are fears; and it is a hard matter to get over them. Lord, increase our faith! We may blush to think that the word of a Philistine should go further than the word of an Israelite, and that the city of Gath should be a place of refuge for a good man, when the cities of Israel refuse him a safe abode. David gained a comfortable…

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1 Samuel 27:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֵּשֶׁב֩vai.ye.Shevand he dweltH3427
דָּוִ֨דda.VidDavidH1732
עִם\־'im-withH5973
אָכִ֥ישׁ'a.KhishAchishH397
בְּגַ֛תbe.Gatin GathH1661
ה֥וּאhu'heH1931
וַאֲנָשָׁ֖יוva.'a.na.Shavand men hisH582
אִ֣ישׁ'isheach oneH376
וּבֵית֑וֹu.vei.Toand household hisH1004
דָּוִד֙da.VidDavidH1732
וּשְׁתֵּ֣יu.she.Teiand [the] twoH8147
נָשָׁ֔יוna.Shavwives hisH802
אֲחִינֹ֙עַם֙'a.chi.No.'amAhinoamH293
הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִ֔יתhai.yiz.re.'e.Litthe Jezreelite [woman]H3158
וַאֲבִיגַ֥יִלva.'a.vi.Ga.yiland AbigailH26
אֵֽשֶׁת\־'e.shet-[the] wife ofH802
נָבָ֖לna.ValNabalH5037
הַֽכַּרְמְלִֽית\׃Ha.kar.me.Litthe Carmelite [woman]H3761

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Samuel 27:3

  • 1 Samuel 25:42-43

    And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

  • 1 Samuel 30:5

    And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

  • 1 Samuel 25:3

    Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

  • 1 Samuel 25:18-35

    Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them. Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good. …

  • 1 Samuel 30:3

    So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
with his two.
25:3,18-35,42,43; 30:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Samuel 27:2

    And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 1 Samuel 27:3

    And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

  • 1 Samuel 27:4

    And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

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1 Samuel 27:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y moró David con Achîs en Gath, él y los suyos, cada uno con su familia: David con sus dos mujeres, Ahinoam Jezreelita, y Abigail, la que fué mujer de Nabal el del Carmelo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et David habita chez Akish, à Gath, lui et ses hommes, chacun avec sa famille, David et ses deux femmes, Akhinoam, la Jizreélite, et Abigaïl, femme de Nabal, la Carmélite.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und David blieb bei Achis, zu Gath, er und seine Männer, ein jeder mit seinem Hause: David und seine beiden Weiber, Achinoam, die Jisreelitin, und Abigail, das Weib Nabals, die Karmelitin.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et habitavit David cum Achis in Geth, ipse et viri ejus: vir et domus ejus: et David, et duæ uxores ejus, Achinoam Jezrahelitis, et Abigail uxor Nabal Carmeli.