1 Samuel 22:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he took them to the king of Moab and they went on living with him while David was in his safe place.

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  • 1 Sam 23:1-6 : 1 And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors. 2 So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands. 3 And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? 4 Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands. 5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah. 6 Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand.
  • 2 Sam 23:13-14 : 13 And three of the thirty went down at the start of the grain-cutting, and they came to David at the strong place of Adullam; and the band of Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim. 14 And at that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.
  • 2 Sam 24:11 : 11 And David got up in the morning; now the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
  • 1 Chr 12:16 : 16 And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.
  • 1 Chr 21:9 : 9 Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,
  • 1 Chr 29:29 : 29 Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;
  • 2 Chr 29:25 : 25 Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets.
  • Neh 6:11 : 11 And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.
  • Ps 11:1 : 1 <For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?
  • Isa 8:12-14 : 12 Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of. 13 But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him. 14 And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.
  • Matt 10:23 : 23 But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.

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  • 1 Sam 22:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1 So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.

    2 And everyone who was in trouble, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, came together to him, and he became captain over them: about four hundred men were joined to him.

    3 And from there David went to Mizpeh in the land of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and mother come and make their living-place with you till it is clear to me what God will do for me.

  • 1 Sam 22:5
    75%

    5 And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    73%

    22 So give me your oath by the Lord, that you will not put an end to my seed after me or let my name be cut off from my father's family.

  • 1 Chr 18:2
    73%

    2 And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.

  • 2 Sam 5:17
    72%

    17 And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over Israel, they all went up in search of David; and David, hearing of it, went down to the strong place.

  • 2 Sam 8:2
    72%

    2 And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    71%

    16 And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.

  • 2 Sam 17:27
    71%

    27 Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

  • 1 Chr 11:16
    71%

    16 At that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.

  • 2 Sam 23:14
    71%

    14 And at that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.

  • 2 Sam 2:3
    71%

    3 And David took all his men with him, every man with his family: and they were living in the towns round Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

    24 And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.

  • 1 Chr 11:7
    70%

    7 And David took the strong tower for his living-place, so it was named the town of David.

  • 1 Sam 23:14
    70%

    14 And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.

  • 1 Sam 30:15
    70%

    15 And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band? And he said, If you give me your oath that you will not put me to death or give me up to my master, I will take you to them.

  • 1 Sam 24:3
    69%

    3 Then Saul took three thousand of the best men out of all Israel, and went in search of David and his men on the rocks of the mountain goats.

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
    69%

    32 And King David said, Send for Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    69%

    8 And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
    69%

    21 Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.

  • 2 Sam 9:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4 And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, He is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.

    5 Then King David sent, and had him taken from Lo-debar, from the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
    69%

    2 So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 27:7
    69%

    7 And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    69%

    31 And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.

  • 1 Sam 19:18
    68%

    18 So David went in flight and got away and came to Ramah, to Samuel, and gave him an account of all Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and were living in Naioth.

  • 1 Sam 24:7
    68%

    7 And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him.

  • 1 Sam 23:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24 And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land.

    25 And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.

  • 2 Kgs 3:26
    68%

    26 And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    68%

    21 And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

  • 2 Sam 8:14
    68%

    14 And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

  • 2 Kgs 3:24
    68%

    24 But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

  • 1 Sam 19:15
    68%

    15 And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.

  • 2 Sam 5:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

    4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,

  • 1 Chr 18:13
    68%

    13 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.

  • Num 22:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

    4 Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    68%

    15 So the king came back, and came as far as Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, meeting the king there, to take him back with them over Jordan.

  • 1 Sam 27:4
    68%

    4 And Saul, hearing that David had gone to Gath, went after him no longer.

  • 2 Sam 6:10
    68%

    10 So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

  • 1 Sam 22:23
    67%

    23 Keep here with me and have no fear; for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.

  • Josh 2:6
    67%

    6 But she had taken them up to the roof, covering them with the stems of flax which she had put out in order there.

  • 1 Sam 26:3
    67%

    3 And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.

  • 2 Sam 4:3
    67%

    3 But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.)

  • 1 Kgs 2:7
    67%

    7 But be good to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be guests at your table; for so they came to me when I went in flight from Absalom your brother.

  • 2 Sam 5:9
    67%

    9 So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.