1 Samuel 23:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Josh 15:55 : 55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah;
  • 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.

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  • 1 Sam 23:25-28
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    86%

    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.

    26 And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

    27 But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land.

    28 So turning back from going after David, Saul went against the Philistines: so that place was named Sela-hammah-lekoth.

  • 1 Sam 23:19-20
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    19 Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land?

    20 So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.

  • 1 Sam 26:1-6
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    1 And the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, and said, Is not David waiting secretly near us in the hill of Hachilah, before the waste land?

    2 Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph.

    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.

    4 And so David sent out watchers, and got word from them that Saul was certainly coming.

    5 And David got up and came to the place where Saul's tents were: and David had a view of the place where Saul was sleeping with Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts, and the tents of the people were all round him.

    6 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, Who will go down with me to the tents of Saul? And Abishai said, I will go down with you.

  • 1 Sam 23:12-15
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    12 Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.

    13 Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.

    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.

    15 And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.

  • 1 Sam 23:23
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    23 So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 24:1-4
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    1 And from there, David went up and took cover in the safe place of En-gedi.

    2 Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.

    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.

    4 And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
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    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 Sam 24:7-9
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    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.

    8 So with these words David kept his servants back, and did not let them make an attack on Saul. And Saul got up and went on his way.

    9 And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.

  • 1 Sam 26:13
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    13 Then David went over to the other side, and took his place on the top of a mountain some distance away, with a great space between them;

  • 1 Chr 12:1
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    1 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 23:3-4
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    71%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 27:8
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    8 And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.

  • 1 Sam 23:8
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    8 And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.

  • 1 Sam 25:12
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    12 So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.

  • 1 Sam 19:18
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    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 22:6
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    6 And news was given to Saul that David had been seen, and the men who were with him: now Saul was in Gibeah, seated under the tree in the high place, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were in their places before him.

  • 1 Sam 27:1-2
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    1 And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

    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 30:31
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    31 And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
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    10 Then David got up and went in flight that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 29:11
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    11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

  • 2 Chr 11:8
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    8 And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph

  • 1 Sam 23:1
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    1 And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.

  • Josh 15:24
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    24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth;

  • 2 Sam 1:1
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    1 Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction of the Amalekites, had been in Ziklag for two days;

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10 Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.

  • 1 Sam 9:5
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    5 And when they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, Come, let us go back, or my father may give up caring about the asses and be troubled about us.

  • Num 13:21
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    21 So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24 And the servants of Saul gave him an account of what David had said.

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    10 And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.