1 Samuel 27:1

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Summary

And 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.

And david

There is nothing

Into the land

1 Samuel 30:1

General references

Psalm 55:7

Lamentations 3:18

Bible References

And david

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.

And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this.

And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;

Though I said in my fear, All men are false.

Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?

And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?

And he said to them, Why are you full of fear? have you still no faith?

For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.

There is nothing

And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.

It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

Into the land

And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.

Then David got up and went in flight that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.

Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.

And the lords of the Philistines went on with their hundreds and their thousands, and David and his men came after with Achish.

Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;

General references

I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.