1 Samuel 23:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ David remained in the wilderness strongholds in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hands.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ David lived in the fortresses in the wilderness and in the hills of the Ziph wilderness. Saul searched for him constantly, but God did not hand David over to Saul.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Then David stayed in the desert, in very strong places. And he stayed on a mount in the wilderness of Ziph, on a shady mount. Nevertheless, Saul was seeking him every day. But the Lord did not deliver him into his hands.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ But David abode in the desert in strongholds; and he remained in a mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought him always: but the Lord delivered him not into his hands.

1 Samuel 23:14 Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:8

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

Psalm 32:7

Thou art a hiding place for me, thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with deliverance. Selah

Psalm 55:7

yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, Selah

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel, can avail against the Lord.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son and Seraiah the son of Azri-el and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord hid them.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?

2 Timothy 3:11

my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.

Joshua 15:24

Ziph, Telem, Be-aloth,

Joshua 15:55

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

1 Samuel 23:15

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

1 Samuel 23:7

Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand; for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”

1 Samuel 24:11

See, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for by the fact that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.

1 Samuel 27:1

And 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 to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”