KJV King James Version
And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
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1 Samuel 23:14
And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
WEB World English Bible
David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
ASV American Standard Version
And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And David abideth in the wilderness, in fortresses, and abideth in the hill-country, in the wilderness of Ziph; and Saul seeketh him all the days, and God hath not given him into his hand.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 23
11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver [thee] up.
13 Then David and his men, [which were] about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
16 And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
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וַיֵּ֨שֶׁבH3427 · ya.shavto dwellדָּוִ֤דH1732 · da.vidDavidבַּמִּדְבָּר֙H4057 · mid.barmouthבַּמְּצָד֔וֹתH4679 · me.tsadstrongholdוַיֵּ֥שֶׁבH3427 · ya.shavto dwellבָּהָ֖רH2022 · harmountain: mountבְּמִדְבַּר־H4057 · mid.barmouthזִ֑יףH2128 · ziphZiphוַיְבַקְשֵׁ֤הוּH1245 · ba.qashto seekשָׁאוּל֙H7586 · sha.ulSaulכָּל־H3605 · kolallהַיָּמִ֔יםH3117 · yomdayוְלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotנְתָנ֥וֹH5414 · na.tanto give: giveאֱלֹהִ֖יםH430 · e.lo.himGodבְּיָדֽוֹ׃H3027 · yadhand
Cross-references
Psalm 54:3-4For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.Psalm 32:7Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,Joshua 15:24Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,2 Timothy 3:11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me.Romans 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.2 Timothy 4:17-18Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.1 Samuel 27:1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.Proverbs 21:30[There is] no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.1 Samuel 23:7And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.Psalm 37:32-33The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.Jeremiah 36:26But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.Psalm 11:1-3To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?
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