He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
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He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom, and all of Edom became servants to David. And Yahweh saved David in every where he went.
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He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
He placed garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
He placed garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. And Jehovah gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
And he put a garison in Edom, and all the Edomites became Dauids seruantes: and the Lord preserued Dauid wheresoeuer he went.
And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom should serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all things to which he went.
and he putteth in Edom garrisons, and all the Edomites are servants to David; and Jehovah saveth David whithersoever he hath gone.
and he puts garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites are servants to David; and YHWH saves David wherever he has gone.
He placed garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David's servants. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom, and all of Edom became servants to David. And Yahweh saved David in every where he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom; and all they of Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.
He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
He set up army posts in Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. The Lord gave David victories wherever he went.
David put armed forces in all the towns of Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נְצִיבִ֔ים garrison H5333 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נְצִיבִ֔ים garrison H5333 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 15 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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וַיָּ֤שֶׂם בֶּֽאֱדוֹם֙ נְצִיבִ֔ים וַיִּהְי֥וּ כָל אֱד֖וֹם עֲבָדִ֣ים לְדָוִ֑יד וַיּ֤וֹשַׁע יְהוָה֙ אֶת דָּוִ֔יד בְּכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלָֽךְ
He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί τίθημι ἐν ὁ κοιλάς φρουρά καί εἰμί πᾶς ὁ ιδουμαίος παῖς δαυίδ καί σώζω κύριος ὁ δαυίδ ἐν πᾶς ὅς πορεύομαι
And he put garrisons in the valley; and all the Idumaeans became David's servants: and the Lord delivered David wherever he went.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nᵉtsîyb (“garrison”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 18:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.