1 Samuel 23:14

New International Version

David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:8

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

Psalm 32:7

You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.

Psalm 55:7

I would flee far away and stay in the desert;

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.

Jeremiah 36:26

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

Romans 8:31

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

Joshua 15:24

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

Joshua 15:55

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

1 Samuel 23:15

While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that Saul had come out to take his life.

1 Samuel 23:7

Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, “God has delivered him into my hands, for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”

1 Samuel 24:11

See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. See that there is nothing in my hand to indicate that I am guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to take my life.

1 Samuel 27:1

But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”