1 Samuel 26:4
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New International Version (©1984)
he sent out scouts and learned that Saul had definitely arrived.

New Living Translation (©2007)
he sent out spies to verify the report of Saul's arrival.

English Standard Version (©2001)
David sent out spies and learned that Saul had come.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
David sent out spies, and he knew that Saul was definitely coming.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
David sent spies to confirm that Saul had arrived.

King James Bible
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.

American King James Version
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.

American Standard Version
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.

Bible in Basic English
And so David sent out watchers, and got word from them that Saul was certainly coming.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come thither.

Darby Bible Translation
David sent out spies, and learned that Saul was certainly come.

English Revised Version
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.

Webster's Bible Translation
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had come in very deed.

World English Bible
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

Young's Literal Translation
and David sendeth spies, and knoweth that Saul hath come unto Nachon,

Geneva Study Bible

David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4, 5. David . sent out spies . and David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched-Having obtained certain information of the locality, he seems, accompanied by his nephew (1Sa 26:6), to have hid himself, perhaps disguised, in a neighboring wood, or hill, on the skirts of the royal camp towards night, and waited to approach it under covert of the darkness.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:1-12 How soon do unholy hearts lose the good impressions convictions have made upon them! How helpless were Saul and all his men! All as though disarmed and chained, yet nothing is done to them; they are only asleep. How easily can God weaken the strongest, befool the wisest, and baffle the most watchful! David still resolved to wait till God thought fit to avenge him on Saul. He will by no means force his way to the promised crown by any wrong methods. The temptation was very strong; but if he yielded, he would sin against God, therefore he resisted the temptation, and trusted God with the event.


1 Samuel 26:3 Saul camped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, beside the road, and David was staying in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,
1 Samuel 26:5 David then arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army; and Saul was lying in the circle of the camp, and the people were camped around him. (NASB ©1995)

Arrived Certainty David Deed Definitely Learned Nachon Saul Scouts Spies Understood Watchers Word


David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.

Jos 2:1 Mt 10:16

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