1 Samuel 23:14

Contemporary English Version 1995

David stayed in hideouts in the hill country of Ziph Desert. Saul kept searching, but God never let Saul catch him.

Cross References

Psalm 32:7

You are my hiding place! You protect me from trouble, and you put songs in my heart because you have saved me.

Joshua 15:55

The eighth region was located in the southeastern part of the hill country, and it had the following ten towns with their surrounding villages: Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah.

2 Timothy 3:11

trouble and suffering in the cities of Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. Yet the Lord rescued me from all those terrible troubles.

Romans 8:31

What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us?

Jeremiah 36:26

The king told his son Jerahmeel to take Seraiah and Shelemiah and to go arrest Baruch and me. But the Lord kept them from finding us.

Proverbs 21:30

No matter how much you know or what plans you make, you can't defeat the Lord.

Proverbs 4:16

They can't sleep or rest until they do wrong or harm some innocent victim.

Proverbs 1:16

They are in a big hurry to commit some crime, perhaps even murder.

1 Samuel 27:1

but he thought to himself, “One of these days, Saul is going to kill me. The only way to escape from him is to go to Philistia. Then I'll be outside of Israel, and Saul will give up trying to catch me.”

1 Samuel 23:15

One time, David was at Horesh in Ziph Desert. He was afraid because Saul had come to the area to kill him.

1 Samuel 24:11

Your Majesty, look at what I'm holding. You can see that it's a piece of your robe. If I could cut off a piece of your robe, I could have killed you. But I let you live, and that should prove I'm not trying to harm you or to rebel. I haven't done anything to you, and yet you keep trying to ambush and kill me.

2 Chronicles 11:8

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

Psalm 55:7

I would go and live in some distant desert.