“Don’t live in your fortified camp,” the prophet Gad told David. “Go to the land of Judah.” So David went to the forest of Hereth.
He had the Levites stand in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres as David, the king’s seer Gad, and the prophet Nathan had ordered. This command came from the Lord through his prophets.
Everything about King David from first to last is written in the records of the seer Samuel, the prophet Nathan, and the seer Gad.
The Lord spoke to Gad, David’s seer.
When David got up in the morning, the Lord spoke his word to the prophet Gad, David’s seer.
He brought them to the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was living in his fortified camp.
While David was in the fortified camp, Philistine troops were at Bethlehem.
O God, you are my God. At dawn I search for you. My soul thirsts for you. My body longs for you in a dry, parched land where there is no water.
While David was in the fortified camp, Philistine troops were in Bethlehem.