1 Samuel 23:24

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Josh 15:55 : 55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
  • 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

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  • 1 Sam 23:25-29
    5 verses
    86%

    25Saul 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.

    26Saul 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.

    27But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!"

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

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

  • 1 Sam 23:19-20
    2 verses
    83%

    19Then 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?

    20Now 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 26:1-6
    6 verses
    82%

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

    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.

    3Saul 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.

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

    5David 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 23:12-15
    4 verses
    81%

    12Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" Yahweh 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. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

    14David 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 23:23
    78%

    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 happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

  • 1 Sam 24:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

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

    2Then 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.

    3He 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.

    4The 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
    75%

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

  • 1 Sam 24:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7So 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.

    8David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

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

  • 1 Sam 26:13
    73%

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

  • 1 Chr 12:1
    72%

    1Now 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.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    72%

    1David 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 23:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

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

    4Then 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."

  • 1 Sam 27:8
    71%

    8David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Sam 23:8
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 25:12
    71%

    12So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

  • 1 Sam 19:18
    71%

    18Now 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 22:6
    71%

    6Saul 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 27:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1David 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."

    2David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    71%

    31and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 29:11
    70%

    11So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.

  • 2 Chr 11:8
    70%

    8and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

  • 1 Sam 23:1
    70%

    1David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

  • Josh 15:24
    70%

    24Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    69%

    1It 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 23:10
    69%

    10Then 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.

  • 1 Sam 9:5
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    5When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, and let us return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys, and be anxious for us."

  • Num 13:21
    69%

    21So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."

  • 1 Sam 27:10
    69%

    10Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites."