1 Chronicles 12:39

39 They ate and drank with David for three days because their relatives [in Judah] had provided enough for them.

1 Chronicles 12:39 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:39

And there they were with David three days, eating and
drinking
Keeping a festival, to testify their joy on this occasion:

for their brethren had prepared for them;
not the inhabitants of Hebron only, but all the country round about, brought in provisions on this joyful occasion; otherwise the men of Hebron would not have been able to have provided what was sufficient for such a vast number, as appears by what follows.

1 Chronicles 12:39 In-Context

37 From the east side of the Jordan River, from Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 soldiers ready to fight with all kinds of weapons.

38 All of these soldiers, who were prepared for battle, came with a single purpose to Hebron--to make David king of all Israel. The rest of Israel also had agreed to make David king.

39 They ate and drank with David for three days because their relatives [in Judah] had provided enough for them.

40 Also, their neighbors as far as the territories of Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. There was plenty of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine, olive oil, cattle, and sheep, because Israel was celebrating.