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39 They spent three days feasting[a] there with David, for their relatives had given them provisions. 40 Also their neighbors, from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, were bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. There were large supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine, olive oil, beef, and lamb,[b] for Israel was celebrating.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 12:39 tn Heb “eating and drinking.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 12:40 tn Heb “cattle and sheep.”
  3. 1 Chronicles 12:40 tn Heb “for there was joy in Israel.”

39 The men spent three days there with David, eating and drinking,(A) for their families had supplied provisions for them. 40 Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There were plentiful supplies(B) of flour, fig cakes, raisin(C) cakes, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep, for there was joy(D) in Israel.

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