1 Samuel 23:26

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

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  • Ps 17:9 : 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
  • Ps 17:11 : 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
  • Ps 22:12 : 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
  • Ps 118:11-13 : 11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
  • Ps 140:1-9 : 1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. 6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. 7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. 8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah. 9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
  • 2 Cor 1:8 : 8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
  • Rev 20:9 : 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
  • 1 Sam 19:12 : 12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
  • 1 Sam 20:38 : 38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
  • 2 Sam 15:14 : 14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
  • 2 Sam 17:21-22 : 21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you. 22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
  • 2 Chr 20:12 : 12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

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  • 1 Sam 23:23-25
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    23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

    24And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.

    25Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

  • 1 Sam 26:1-5
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    1And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?

    2Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

    3And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

    4David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.

    5And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

  • 1 Sam 23:12-15
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    12Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.

    13Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.

    14And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

    15And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

  • 1 Sam 26:13
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    13Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

  • 1 Sam 24:1-4
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    1And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.

    2Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

    3And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

    4And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
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    22And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.

  • 1 Sam 27:1
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    1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
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    10And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 18:11-12
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    11And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

    12And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 23:7-8
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    7And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

    8And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

  • 1 Sam 19:10-11
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    10And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

    11Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

  • 1 Sam 23:27-29
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    27But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

    28Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.

    29And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.

  • 1 Sam 24:7
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    7So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

  • 1 Sam 23:19
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    19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?

  • 1 Sam 24:9
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    9And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

  • 1 Sam 22:6
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    6When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)

  • 1 Sam 23:3
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    3And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

  • 1 Sam 19:18
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    18So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-2
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    1And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

    2But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

  • 1 Sam 17:31
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    31And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 18:29
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    29And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

  • 1 Sam 14:46
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    46Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
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    1David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.

  • 1 Sam 27:4
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    4And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.

  • 1 Sam 14:22
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    22Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
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    19Now 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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    9And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
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    20And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

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    3And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

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    11When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.