1 Samuel 23:14

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1 Samuel 23:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 So David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.

13 Then David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.

14 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.

15 While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.

16 And Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,

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Psalms 11:1

In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

Psalms 11:2

For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

Psalms 11:3

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Joshua 15:24

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

Joshua 15:55

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

1 Samuel 27:1

David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

Psalms 54:3

For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life— men with no regard for God. Selah

Psalms 54:4

Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

1 Samuel 23:7

When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”

Psalms 32:7

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

Psalms 37:32

Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

Psalms 37:33

the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Jeremiah 36:26

Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.

Romans 8:31

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

2 Timothy 3:11

my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

2 Timothy 4:18

And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.