1 Samuel 23:14

New American Bible - revised edition

David now lived in the strongholds in the wilderness, or in the barren hill country near Ziph. Though Saul sought him continually, the Lord did not deliver David into his hand.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:8

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

Psalm 32:7

You are my shelter; you guard me from distress; with joyful shouts of deliverance you surround me. Selah

Psalm 55:7

I say, “If only I had wings like a dove that I might fly away and find rest.

Proverbs 1:16

[For their feet run to evil, they hasten to shed blood.]

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel prevail against the Lord.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot rest unless they have done evil; if they do not trip anyone they lose sleep.

Jeremiah 36:26

He commanded Jerahmeel, a royal prince, and Seraiah, son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch, the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord had hidden them away.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, persecutions that I endured. Yet from all these things the Lord delivered me.

Joshua 15:24

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

Joshua 15:55

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

1 Samuel 23:15

While David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh he was afraid that Saul had come out to seek his life.

1 Samuel 23:7

When Saul was told that David had entered Keilah, he thought: “God has put him in my hand, for he has boxed himself in by entering a city with gates and bars.”

1 Samuel 24:11

You see for yourself today that the Lord just now delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I took pity on you instead. I decided, ‘I will not raise a hand against my master, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

1 Samuel 27:1

David said to himself: “I shall perish some day at the hand of Saul. I have no choice but to escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up his continual search for me throughout the land of Israel, and I will be out of his reach.”