1 Samuel 26:5

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Then David got up and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, were lying down. Saul was lying inside the camp with the troops encamped around him.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And David arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. And David saw where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the camp, and the people were camped around him.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And Dauid gat him vp, and came to the place where Saul had pitched his tet, and sawe the place where Saul laye with his chefe captayne Abner ye sonne of Ner: for Saul laye in the tent, and the hoost aboute him.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Then Dauid arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched, and when Dauid beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the sonne of Ner which was his chiefe captaine, (for Saul lay in the fort, and the people pitched round about him)

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Dauid arose, & came to the place where Saul had pitched: & Dauid beheld the place where Saul lay, & Abner the sonne of Ner which was his chiefe captayne: for Saul lay in the fort, & the people pytched rounde about him.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and David riseth, and cometh in unto the place where Saul hath encamped, and David seeth the place where Saul hath lain, and Abner son of Ner, head of his host, and Saul is lying in the path, and the people are encamping round about him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And David got up and came to the place where Saul's tents were: and David had a view of the place where Saul was sleeping with Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts, and the tents of the people were all round him.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 17:55 : 55 When Saul saw David going out to confront the Philistine, he asked Abner, the commander of his army, 'Abner, whose son is this young man?' Abner replied, 'As surely as you live, O king, I do not know.'
  • 1 Sam 14:50-51 : 50 The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz. The commander of his army was Abner son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. 51 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, was the son of Abiel.
  • 1 Sam 17:20 : 20 Early in the morning, David left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.
  • 1 Sam 9:1 : 1 There was a man from the tribe of Benjamin named Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, from the tribe of Benjamin, a man of great standing.
  • 2 Sam 2:8-9 : 8 Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Ish-bosheth son of Saul and brought him to Mahanaim. 9 There he made him king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all Israel. 10 Ish-bosheth, son of Saul, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he reigned for two years. However, the house of Judah was loyal to David. 11 The length of time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months. 12 Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
  • 2 Sam 3:7-8 : 7 Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, daughter of Aiah. Ishbosheth said to Abner, 'Why have you slept with my father's concubine?' 8 Abner became very angry over Ishbosheth's words and said, 'Am I a dog's head at Judah's disposal? Today I am loyal to the house of Saul your father, to his relatives and friends, and I have not delivered you into David's hand. Yet now you accuse me of sinning with this woman!'
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside inside the gate, as if to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly, killing him in revenge for the blood of his brother Asahel.
  • 2 Sam 3:33-38 : 33 The king sang a lament for Abner, saying: 'Should Abner die as a fool dies? 34 Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.' And all the people wept over him. 35 Then the people came to urge David to eat something while it was still day. But David took an oath, saying, 'May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets.' 36 All the people took note of this, and it pleased them, just as everything the king did pleased them. 37 So on that day all the people and all Israel knew that the king had no part in the killing of Abner son of Ner. 38 Then the king said to his men, 'Do you not realize that a commander and a great man has fallen in Israel this day?'
  • 1 Chr 9:39 : 39 Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

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