1 Samuel 24:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. And David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

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  • Judg 3:24 : 24 When he had gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that the doors of the chamber were locked, they said, Surely he is covering his feet in his summer chamber.
  • Ps 57:1-9 : 1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul trusts in you; yes, in the shadow of your wings I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by. 2 I will cry to God Most High, to God who performs all things for me. 3 He shall send from heaven and save me from the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. 4 My soul is among lions, and I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth. 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah. 7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and give praise. 8 Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp; I myself will awaken the dawn. 9 I will praise you, O Lord, among the people; I will sing to you among the nations. 10 For your mercy reaches unto the heavens, and your truth unto the clouds. 11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth.
  • Ps 142:1-7 : 1 I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD did I make my plea. 2 I poured out my complaint before Him; I showed Him my trouble. 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me. 4 I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no one who would know me; refuge failed me; no one cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto You, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. 6 Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise Your name; the righteous shall surround me, for You shall deal bountifully with me.
  • Ps 141:6 : 6 When their judges are overthrown in rocky places, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

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  • 1 Sam 24:7-10
    4 verses
    84%

    7So David restrained his servants with these words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave and went on his way.

    8David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and showed respect.

    9And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your harm?

    10Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some urged me to kill you: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

  • 1 Sam 24:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1And it came to pass, when Saul returned from following the Philistines, that it was told to 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.

  • 1 Sam 26:1-7
    7 verses
    80%

    1And the Ziphites came to Saul in Gibeah, saying, Does David not hide himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?

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

    3And Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the road. But David remained in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul had come after him into the wilderness.

    4David therefore sent out spies, and knew that Saul had indeed come.

    5And David arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. And David saw where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the camp, and the people were camped around him.

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

    7So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and there lay Saul sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; but Abner and the people lay around him.

  • 1 Sam 24:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.

    5And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's robe.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    79%

    22And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 23:23-26
    4 verses
    79%

    23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among 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; therefore, 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.

    26And 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 surrounded David and his men, intending to capture them.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    78%

    1David therefore departed from there, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

  • 1 Sam 23:12-15
    4 verses
    77%

    12Then David said, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver you up.

    13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; and he refrained from going forth.

    14And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, 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 forest.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    75%

    24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, This is what David spoke.

  • 1 Sam 23:19
    75%

    19Then the Ziphites went up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?

  • 1 Sam 21:10
    75%

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

  • 1 Sam 26:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they departed, and no man saw it or knew it or awoke, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.

    13Then David went over to the other side and stood on the top of a hill a great distance away, a large space being between them.

  • 1 Sam 27:1
    74%

    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 quickly escape into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of me, to seek me any longer in any territory of Israel. Thus I will escape out of his hand.

  • 1 Sam 22:6
    74%

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

  • 1 Sam 13:6
    74%

    6When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

  • 1 Sam 19:10
    74%

    10And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the javelin, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he drove the javelin into the wall; and David fled and escaped that night.

  • 1 Sam 23:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7And it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has 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 19:18
    74%

    18So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

  • 1 Sam 19:2
    74%

    2But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted greatly in David; and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you; now therefore, I pray you, be on guard until the morning, and stay in a secret place, and hide yourself:

  • 1 Sam 17:31
    74%

    31When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 19:15
    74%

    15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.

  • 1 Chr 11:15
    74%

    15Now three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam, while the army of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 2 Sam 1:2
    73%

    2On the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes torn and earth upon his head: and when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid respect.

  • 1 Sam 23:29
    73%

    29And David went up from there, and lived in strongholds at Engedi.

  • 1 Sam 27:4
    73%

    4And it was told to Saul that David had fled to Gath, and he sought no more for him.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
    73%

    5And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
    73%

    10Then David said, O LORD God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 2 Sam 23:13
    73%

    13And three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave of Adullam while the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Sam 24:16
    73%

    16And it came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    73%

    34David said to Saul, Your servant kept his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

  • 1 Sam 23:3
    72%

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