1 Samuel 27:4

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When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer pursued him.

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  • 1 Sam 26:21 : 21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will not harm you again, because my life was precious in your sight today. Look, I have acted foolishly and have made a great mistake."

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  • 1 Sam 21:10
    81%

    10The priest replied, 'The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it. There is no other here.' David said, 'There is none like it; give it to me.'

  • 1 Sam 27:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11David did not leave alive a man or woman to bring to Gath, for he thought, "They might inform against us, saying, 'This is what David did.'" This was his practice the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

    12Achish trusted David and thought, "He has made himself utterly detestable to his own people Israel, and he will be my servant forever."

  • 1 Sam 27:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1David said to himself, "One day I will perish at the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up looking for me throughout the territory of Israel, and I will be safe from him."

    2So David arose and went over with his six hundred men to Achish son of Maoch, king of Gath.

    3David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each with their households, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 27:5
    77%

    5Then David said to Achish, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the country towns, so that I may live there. Why should your servant remain living in the royal city with you?"

  • 1 Sam 23:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13So David and his men, about six hundred in number, left Keilah and moved wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he stopped his pursuit.

    14David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand David over to him.

    15When David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life, he stayed in the Wilderness of Ziph, in the woods.

  • 1 Sam 19:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18David fled and escaped. He went to Samuel at Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

    19When Saul was told, 'David is at Naioth in Ramah,' he acted accordingly.

  • 1 Sam 21:12
    75%

    12The servants of Achish said to him, 'Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one they sing about in their dances, saying, "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands"?'

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    75%

    9David got up afterward, went out of the cave, and called after Saul, 'My lord the king!' When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage.

  • 1 Sam 17:31
    75%

    31When David's words were heard, they were reported to Saul, and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 24:1
    75%

    1David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En-gedi.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    75%

    22Now swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or destroy my name from my father's family.

  • 1 Sam 26:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which faces the wilderness along the road, while David stayed in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul had come into the wilderness after him,

    4David sent out spies and learned that Saul had definitely come.

    5Then David got up and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, were lying down. Saul was lying inside the camp with the troops encamped around him.

  • 1 Sam 18:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11Saul hurled the spear, saying, "I’ll pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice.

    12Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 23:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25When Saul and his men began searching for him, David was told about it. He then went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard this, he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon.

    26Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul. But as Saul and his forces were closing in on David and his men to capture them,

  • 1 Sam 24:7
    73%

    7He said to his men, 'The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, by raising my hand against him, for he is the LORD’s anointed.'

  • 1 Sam 19:10
    73%

    10Saul attempted to pin David to the wall with his spear, but David dodged, and the spear struck the wall. David fled and escaped that night.

  • 1 Sam 24:3
    73%

    3So Saul chose three thousand elite men from all Israel and went to search for David and his men near the rocks of the wild goats.

  • 1 Sam 27:7
    73%

    7David lived in Philistine territory for a year and four months.

  • 1 Sam 14:46
    73%

    46Then Saul stopped pursuing the Philistines, and they withdrew to their own land.

  • 1 Sam 29:3
    73%

    3The Philistine commanders asked, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" Achish replied to the Philistine commanders, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me for days or years? I have found no fault in him from the day he defected to me until now."

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    73%

    9David attacked the land and did not leave alive a man or woman. He took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing, and then he returned and went to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 23:28
    73%

    28Then Saul stopped pursuing David and went to confront the Philistines. That is why they called that place the Rock of Escape.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    72%

    8War broke out again. David went out to fight the Philistines and struck them with a great slaughter, causing them to flee before him.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    72%

    24When Saul’s servants reported back what David had said,

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    72%

    1After this, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Gath and its surrounding villages from the control of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 29:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6So Achish called David and said to him, "As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your conduct with me in the camp has been good in my eyes. I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today. But the rulers don’t approve of you.

    7Now turn back and go in peace, so you don’t displease the Philistine rulers.

    8David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I first came to you until now, that I may not go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?"

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    71%

    57As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the Philistine's head still in his hand.

  • 1 Sam 18:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29Saul grew even more afraid of David. He continually regarded him as an enemy for the rest of his days.

    30The Philistine commanders continued to go out to battle, but every time they went out, David had more success than all of Saul’s servants, and he became highly esteemed.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
    71%

    5David went out and was successful in everything Saul sent him to do. Saul gave him command over the soldiers, and he was well-liked by everyone, including Saul’s officers.

  • 1 Sam 14:37
    71%

    37Saul inquired of God, 'Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?' But He did not answer him that day.

  • 1 Sam 26:1
    71%

    1Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, "Isn't David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, which overlooks the wilderness?"

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    71%

    1In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies to wage war against Israel, and Achish said to David, "You surely know that you and your men will go out with me in the army."

  • 1 Sam 23:10
    71%

    10David said, "LORD, God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city because of me.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    71%

    15But David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 22:6
    71%

    6Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. Saul was seated in Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the hill, spear in hand, with all his servants standing around him.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    71%

    1David left from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's household heard about it, they went down to him there.