1 Samuel 23:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Ps 17:9 : 9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.
  • Ps 17:11 : 11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;
  • Ps 22:12 : 12 A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
  • Ps 118:11-13 : 11 They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down. 12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down. 13 I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.
  • Ps 140:1-9 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man: 2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war. 3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.) 4 O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall. 5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.) 6 I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer. 7 O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight. 8 O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.) 9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.
  • 2 Cor 1:8 : 8 For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:
  • Rev 20:9 : 9 And they went up over the face of the earth, and made a circle about the tents of the saints, and the well loved town: and fire came down out of heaven for their destruction.
  • 1 Sam 19:12 : 12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.
  • 1 Sam 20:38 : 38 And Jonathan went on crying out after the boy, Be quick, do not keep waiting about, go quickly. And Jonathan's boy got the arrow and came back to his master.
  • 2 Sam 15:14 : 14 And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword.
  • 2 Sam 17:21-22 : 21 Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you. 22 So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.
  • 2 Chr 20:12 : 12 O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

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  • 1 Sam 23:23-25
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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.

    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.

  • 1 Sam 26:1-5
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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.

  • 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 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 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 27:1
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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.

  • 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 18:11-12
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    11 And Saul, balancing the spear in his hand, said, I will give David a blow, pinning him to the wall. And David got away from him twice.

    12 And Saul went in fear of David, because the Lord was with David and had gone away from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 23:7-8
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    7 And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.

    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 19:10-11
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    10 And Saul would have sent his spear through him, pinning him to the wall, but he got away and the spear went into the wall: and that night David went in flight and got away.

    11 Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.

  • 1 Sam 23:27-28
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    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 24:7
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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.

  • 1 Sam 23:19
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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?

  • 1 Sam 24:9
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    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 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 23:3
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    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?

  • 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 19:1-2
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    1 And Saul gave orders to his son Jonathan and to all his servants to put David to death. But Saul's son Jonathan had great delight in David.

    2 And Jonathan said to David, Saul, my father, is purposing your death: so now, take care in the morning, and keep yourself safe in a secret place:

  • 1 Sam 17:31
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    31 And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 18:29
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    29 And Saul's fear of David became all the greater, and he went on hating him, day by day.

  • 1 Sam 14:46
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    46 Then Saul, turning back, went after the Philistines no longer: and the Philistines went back to their place.

  • 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 27:4
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    4 And Saul, hearing that David had gone to Gath, went after him no longer.

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

  • 1 Sam 14:22
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    22 And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
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    19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 18:9
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    9 And from that day Saul was looking with envy on David.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
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    20 And Saul and all the people with him came together and went forward to the fight: and every man's sword was turned against the man at his side, and there was a very great noise.

  • 1 Sam 17:3
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    3 The Philistines were stationed on the mountain on one side and Israel on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

  • 1 Sam 17:11
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    11 And Saul and all Israel, hearing those words of the Philistine, were troubled and full of fear.