1 Samuel 23:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ And David abode in the wilderness in the strong holds, 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.

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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

and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

Psalm 32:7

Thou art my hiding place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah

Psalm 55:7

Lo, then would I wander far off, 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

There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against the LORD.

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Jeremiah 36:26

And 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 the LORD hid them.

Romans 8:31

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

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, sufferings; what things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Joshua 15:24

Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth;

Joshua 15:55

Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah;

1 Samuel 23:15

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

1 Samuel 23:7

And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

1 Samuel 24:11

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou huntest after my soul 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 into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.