1 Samuel 23:14

David Eludes Saul's Pursuit

¹³ Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit. ¹⁴ David stayed 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 did not deliver him into his hand. ¹⁵ Now David became aware that Saul had come out to seek his life while David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.

In the Wilderness

Day After Day

In The Desert

David

Saul

Ziph

Psalm 54:3-4

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

Joshua 15:24

Ziph and Telem and Bealoth,

Joshua 15:55

Maon, Carmel and Ziph and Juttah,

Psalm 32:7

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

1 Samuel 23:7

When it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he shut himself in by entering a city with double gates and bars.”

1 Samuel 27:1

Then David said to himself, “Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

Psalm 11:1-3

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In the Lord I take refuge;
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;

Psalm 37:32-33

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

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, 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.

Romans 8:31

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

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!

2 Timothy 4:17-18

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.