1 Samuel 23:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

A mountain

Psalm 11:1

The wilderness

Joshua 15:24

Saul

But god

Bible References

A mountain

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

The wilderness

Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

Saul

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 border of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

But god

And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.

You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

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

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

However 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.