1 Samuel 22:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Gad the prophet said to David,“Don’t stay in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 21:9 : 9 The LORD told Gad, David’s prophet,
  • 1 Chr 29:29 : 29 King David’s accomplishments, from start to finish, are recorded in the Annals of Samuel the prophet, the Annals of Nathan the prophet, and the Annals of Gad the prophet.
  • 2 Chr 29:25 : 25 Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the LORD’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered.(The LORD had actually given these orders through his prophets.)
  • 2 Sam 24:11 : 11 When David got up the next morning, the LORD’s message had already come to the prophet Gad, David’s seer:

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    18So the LORD’s angel told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    19So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 24:18-19
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    18David Acquires a Threshing Floor and Constructs an Altar There So Gad went to David that day and told him,“Go up and build an altar for the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

    19So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the LORD’s instructions.

  • 1 Sam 22:3-4
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    3Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab,“Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”

    4So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time that David was in the stronghold.

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    9The LORD told Gad, David’s prophet,

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    13So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

    14David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, but God did not deliver David into his hand.

    15David realized that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the wilderness of Ziph.

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    11Gad went to David and told him,“This is what the LORD says:‘Pick one of these:

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    6Saul Executes the Priests But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.

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