1 Samuel 23:28 - New Revised Standard Version

²⁸ So Saul stopped pursuing David, and went against the Philistines; therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ So Saul returned from pursuing David and went against the Philistines. So they called that place the Rock of Escape.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

Common English Bible

²⁸ So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to fight the Philistines. That’s why that place is called Escape Rock.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ Therefore, Saul turned back, ceasing in the pursuit of David, and he traveled to meet the Philistines. For this reason, they called that place, the Rock of Division.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ Wherefore Saul returned, leaving the pursuit of David, and went to meet the Philistines. For this cause they called that place, the Rock of Division.

1 Samuel 23:28 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 124:7

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

1 Samuel 23:25

Saul and his men went to search for him. When David was told, he went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon.

1 Samuel 23:27

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

1 Samuel 23:29

David then went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.

1 Samuel 24:1

When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”

1 Samuel 24:2

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to look for David and his men in the direction of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.