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Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
1 Samuel 27:6 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
  • BSB That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.
  • NKJV So Achish gave him Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.
  • NASB So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.
  • NLT So Achish gave him the town of Ziklag (which still belongs to the kings of Judah to this day),

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 10

  • Neh 11:28in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,
  • Josh 15:31Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
  • 1 Sam 30:1When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
  • 1 Sam 30:14We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”
  • Josh 19:5Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
  • 1 Chr 12:1Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
  • 1 Chr 12:20As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
  • 1 Chr 4:30at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
  • 2 Sam 1:1After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;
  • 1 Sam 19:5for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

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  • VideoBibleProject — 1 Samuel videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.

How 1 Samuel 27:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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