1 Samuel 22:4

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So David left his parents with the king of Moab. They stayed with the king of Moab as long as David was at the fort.

Cross References

Psalm 11:1

I trust in the Lord, so why did you tell me to run and hide? Why did you say, “Fly like a bird to your mountain?”

Matthew 10:23

When you are treated badly in one city, go to another city. I promise you that you will not finish going to all the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes again.

Nehemiah 6:11

But I said to Shemaiah, “Should a man like me run away? You know that an ordinary man like me cannot go into the Holy Place without being put to death. I will not go!”

2 Chronicles 29:25

King Hezekiah put the Levites in the Lord’s Temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres as David, Gad, the king’s seer, and the prophet Nathan had commanded. This command came from the Lord through his prophets.

1 Chronicles 29:29

The things that King David did, from beginning to end, are in the books written by Samuel the seer, Nathan the prophet, and Gad the seer.

1 Chronicles 21:9

Gad was David’s seer. The Lord said to Gad, “Go and tell David: ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to give you three choices. You must choose one of them. Then I will punish you the way you choose.’”

1 Chronicles 12:16

Other men from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah also came to David at the fortress.

2 Samuel 24:11

When David got up in the morning, the Lord gave this message to Gad, David’s seer:

1 Samuel 22:3

David left Adullam and went to Mizpah in Moab. David said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God is going to do to me.”

1 Samuel 22:5

But the prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the fort. Go to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to Hereth Forest.

2 Samuel 8:2

He also defeated the Moabites. He forced them to lie on the ground in a long row. Using a rope to measure, those within two lengths of the rope were killed and those within every third length were allowed to live. So the Moabites became servants of David and paid tribute to him.

1 Chronicles 11:16

Another time David was in the fortress, and a group of Philistine soldiers was stationed in Bethlehem.