Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.