1 Samuel 21:14
Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?
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1 Samuel 21:14
Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?
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Genesis 20:2
Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis 26:1
There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
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Exodus 34:28
He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
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1 Samuel 21:2
David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’
1 Samuel 21:3
Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
1 Samuel 21:4
The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
1 Samuel 21:5
David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
1 Samuel 21:6
So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1 Samuel 21:8
David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
1 Samuel 21:9
The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it, for there is no other except that here.” David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.”
1 Samuel 22:9
Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
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1 Samuel 22:1
David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
Psalms 34:6
This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Psalms 56:5
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 57:1
Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
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1 Samuel 29:11
So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines; and the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
1 Samuel 30:2
and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way.
1 Samuel 30:3
When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
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1 Samuel 27:1
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”
1 Samuel 27:10
Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”
1 Samuel 27:11
David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’ ”
1 Samuel 28:1
In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men.”
1 Samuel 28:2
David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever.”
1 Samuel 29:2
The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.
1 Samuel 29:3
Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years? I have found no fault in him since he fell away until today.”
1 Samuel 29:5
Isn’t this David, of whom people sang to one another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’ ”
1 Samuel 29:6
Then Achish called David and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.
1 Samuel 29:7
Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 29:8
David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
1 Samuel 29:9
Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’
1 Samuel 29:10
Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, depart.”
1 Samuel 30:1
When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
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1 Chronicles 14:11
So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
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Job 12:20
He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
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Job 15:23
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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Ezekiel 9:4
Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
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