1 Samuel 23:15 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁵ And David was afraid because Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the Wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the Wilderness of Ziph in the wood [at Horesh].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁵ While David was at Horesh in the Ziph wilderness he learned that Saul was looking to kill him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And David saw that Saul had gone out, so that he might seek his life. Now David was in the desert of Ziph, in the woods.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David was in the desert of Ziph, in a wood.

1 Samuel 23:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 4:8

and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; the Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”

Daniel 10:18

Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me.

Hebrews 11:38

of whom the world was not worthy—wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

1 Samuel 23:14

And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:16

And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose, and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.

1 Samuel 23:3

But 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?”

1 Samuel 26:3

And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness; and when he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,