1 Samuel 23:14

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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

([Psalm of David]) I have taken refuge in Jehovah. How can you say to me: Flee to your mountain like a bird?

The wilderness

Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

Saul

David thought to himself: One of these days Saul will kill me. The best thing for me to do is escape to Philistia. Saul will give up looking for me in Israel. Then I will be safe.

For strangers have risen up against me. And oppressors seek after my life. They have not kept God in their presence.

For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

They do not sleep unless they have done evil. Their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

But god

When Saul was told that David went to Keilah, Saul said: God has delivered him into my hands. He has trapped himself by going into a city which has a gate with a double door held shut by a bar.

You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble. You surround me with joyous songs of salvation.

The wicked spies upon the righteous and seeks to kill him.

For strangers have risen up against me. And oppressors seek after my life. They have not kept God in their presence.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah!

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But Jehovah had hidden Baruch and Jeremiah.

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

and also persecutions and sufferings. The things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Out of them the Lord delivered me.

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the people of the nations might hear. I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion (Satan the Devil) (great danger) (1 Peter 5:8) (Psalm 22:21) (1 Thessalonians 2:18).