1 Chronicles 11:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 10:5 : 5 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
  • 1 Sam 13:4 : 4 All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
  • 1 Sam 13:23 : 23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
  • 1 Sam 22:1 : 1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
  • 1 Sam 23:25 : 25 Saul and his men went to seek him. They told David: why he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
  • Ps 142:1 : 1 > I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

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  • 2 Sam 23:13-16
    4 verses
    95%

    13Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

    14David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

    15David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!

    16The three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 11:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

    14They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.

    15Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Chr 11:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!

    18The three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,

  • 2 Sam 5:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.

    18Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Chr 11:7
    76%

    7David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

  • 1 Sam 23:1-5
    5 verses
    73%

    1They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.

    2Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and strike these Philistines? Yahweh said to David, Go, and strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.

    3David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

    4Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.

    5David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    73%

    16There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David.

  • 1 Sam 17:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

    16The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

  • 1 Sam 23:29
    72%

    29David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

  • 1 Sam 17:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.

    2Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

    3The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

  • 1 Sam 13:23
    72%

    23The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    71%

    1David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

  • 1 Chr 14:13
    71%

    13The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.

  • 1 Sam 22:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.

    5The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

  • 1 Chr 14:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.

    9Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 2 Sam 5:9
    71%

    9David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built round about from Millo and inward.

  • 1 Sam 17:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

    20David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

    21Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
    71%

    41The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

  • 1 Chr 14:16
    71%

    16David did as God commanded him: and they struck the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    71%

    1It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go out with me in the host, you and your men.

  • 1 Sam 13:16
    71%

    16Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    71%

    1After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • 2 Chr 11:7
    71%

    7Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam,

  • 1 Sam 17:23
    71%

    23As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.

  • Judg 15:9
    71%

    9Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

  • 2 Sam 21:15
    70%

    15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

  • 1 Sam 17:12
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    12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.

  • 1 Sam 17:48
    70%

    48It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

  • 1 Sam 29:1-2
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    1Now the Philistines gathered together all their hosts to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.

    2The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.

  • 2 Sam 5:7
    70%

    7Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

  • 2 Chr 28:18
    70%

    18The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns of it, and Timnah with the towns of it, Gimzo also and the towns of it: and they lived there.