3David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, |Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.|


In Context

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

2 Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, |Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.|

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

5 The prophet Gad said to David, |Don't stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.| Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

1 Samuel 22:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:3From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, "Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:3And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:3And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do for me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:3And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:3And David went thence to Mizpeh in Moab, and said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth amongst you, till I know what God will do for me.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:3And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:3And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:3And David goeth thence to Mizpeh of Moab, and saith unto the king of Moab, 'Let, I pray thee, my father and my mother go out with you, till that I know what God doth for me;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:3And David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray you, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.