1 Samuel 23:15
David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.
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1 Samuel 23:15
David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.
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Joshua 15:24
Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
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Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
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1 Samuel 8:20
that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
1 Chronicles 20:1
At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
Job 39:21
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
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1 Samuel 18:11
and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.
1 Samuel 19:1
Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
1 Samuel 19:3
I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”
1 Samuel 19:4
Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;
1 Samuel 19:5
for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
1 Samuel 19:6
Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”
1 Samuel 19:7
Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
1 Samuel 19:8
There was war again. David went out and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
1 Samuel 19:9
An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing music with his hand.
1 Samuel 19:10
Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.
1 Samuel 19:11
Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
1 Samuel 19:15
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
1 Samuel 20:1
David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
1 Samuel 25:29
Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
Psalms 63:9
But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
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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.
1 Samuel 24:1
When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”
1 Kings 17:3
“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 18:13
Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 19:9
He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Psalms 142:1
I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
Psalms 142:2
I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
Psalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
Psalms 142:4
Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
Psalms 142:5
I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
Psalms 142:6
Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
Psalms 142:7
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.
Hebrews 11:38
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
Revelation 12:14
Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
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1 Samuel 23:1
David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
1 Samuel 23:3
David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
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1 Samuel 23:26
Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
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.”
Psalms 11:1
In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
Jeremiah 12:5
“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
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1 Samuel 25:2
There was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
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1 Samuel 26:3
Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
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2 Samuel 15:28
Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
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1 Chronicles 14:8
When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them.
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Job 16:5
but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
Isaiah 35:4
Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
Daniel 10:18
Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me.
Luke 22:32
but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”
Luke 22:43
An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
Acts 18:23
Having spent some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
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Job 23:6
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Ephesians 3:16
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Colossians 1:11
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,
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Psalms 63:10
They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
Psalms 71:24
My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
Matthew 2:20
“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
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Isaiah 17:9
In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
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Jeremiah 21:14
I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’ ”
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Ezekiel 6:14
I will stretch out my hand on them and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”
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Daniel 10:20
Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.
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Acts 9:17
Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
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