1 Samuel 23:14

World English Bible (2000)

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.

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  • Ps 54:3-4 : 3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah. 4 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
  • Josh 15:24 : 24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
  • Josh 15:55 : 55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
  • Ps 32:7 : 7 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
  • Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him. 33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
  • 1 Sam 23:7 : 7 It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars."
  • 1 Sam 27:1 : 1 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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."
  • Ps 11:1-3 : 1 In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!" 2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart. 3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
  • Jer 36:26 : 26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
  • Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • 2 Tim 3:11 : 11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.
  • 2 Tim 4:17-18 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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  • 1 Sam 23:15-16
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    87%

    15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

    16 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

  • 1 Sam 23:19-20
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    83%

    19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

    20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand."

  • 1 Sam 26:1-5
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    1 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?"

    2 Then 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.

    3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

    4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

    5 David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.

  • 1 Sam 23:23-26
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    23 See 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 happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

    24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

    25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

    26 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 to take them.

  • 1 Sam 23:10-13
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    10 Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

    11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant." Yahweh said, "He will come down."

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

    13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

  • 1 Sam 23:29
    77%

    29 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

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

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

  • 1 Sam 24:1-4
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    1 It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi."

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

    3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.

    4 The men of David said to him, "Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, 'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
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    22 David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 24:7
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    7 So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

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

  • 1 Sam 27:1
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    1 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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

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

  • 1 Sam 22:5-6
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    5 The prophet Gad said to David, "Don't stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

    6 Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

  • 1 Sam 24:9-10
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    9 David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

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

  • 2 Sam 22:1
    74%

    1 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

  • 1 Sam 19:10
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    10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

  • 1 Sam 19:18
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    18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
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    1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

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

  • 1 Sam 22:23
    73%

    23 Stay with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard."

  • 1 Sam 19:2
    72%

    2 Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

  • 1 Sam 23:4-5
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    4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand."

    5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • 1 Sam 18:11-12
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    11 and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.

    12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul.

  • 2 Sam 23:14
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    14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 17:37
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    37 David said, "Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go; and Yahweh shall be with you."

  • 1 Chr 12:1
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    1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
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    1 It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;

  • 1 Sam 17:34
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    34 David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

  • 2 Sam 5:7
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    7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.