1 Samuel 23:28

English Standard Version 2016

So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.

Cross References

1 Samuel 23:27

a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.”

1 Samuel 23:29

And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi.

1 Samuel 24:1

When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”

1 Samuel 23:25

And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

1 Samuel 24:2

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats’ Rocks.

Psalm 124:7

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!