1 Samuel 23:29

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 20:2 : 2 Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar" (that is, En Gedi).
  • Josh 15:62 : 62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.
  • Song 1:14 : 14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. Lover
  • Ezek 47:10 : 10 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
  • 1 Sam 24:1 : 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."
  • Gen 14:7 : 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

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  • 1 Sam 24:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    78%

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

  • 1 Sam 23:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

    14 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.

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

  • 1 Chr 11:7
    76%

    7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    76%

    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 23:28
    76%

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

  • 2 Sam 23:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

    14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 23:19
    74%

    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?

  • 2 Sam 5:17
    74%

    17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 23:24-26
    3 verses
    74%

    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 22:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.

    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.

  • 2 Sam 5:9
    74%

    9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built around from Millo and inward.

  • 1 Sam 27:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    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."

    2 David 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 21:10
    73%

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

  • 1 Sam 26:3
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 23:1-5
    5 verses
    72%

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

    2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" Yahweh said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah."

    3 David'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?"

    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 17:15
    72%

    15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Chr 11:16
    72%

    16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

  • 2 Sam 5:7
    72%

    7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

  • 1 Sam 26:13
    72%

    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 19:18
    72%

    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 30:31
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 24:7
    72%

    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
    71%

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

  • 1 Chr 21:19
    71%

    19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 24:19
    71%

    19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

  • 1 Sam 27:8
    71%

    8 David 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
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    70%

    8 There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 29:11
    70%

    11 So 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 Sam 5:25
    70%

    25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
    70%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 22:1
    69%

    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 Chr 14:8
    69%

    8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.

  • 1 Sam 26:5
    69%

    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 22:23
    69%

    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."