1 Samuel 23:26

World English Bible (2000)

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

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  • Ps 17:9 : 9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
  • Ps 17:11 : 11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
  • Ps 22:12 : 12 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
  • Ps 118:11-13 : 11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off. 12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off. 13 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.
  • Ps 140:1-9 : 1 Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man; 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet. 5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah. 6 I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh. 7 Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. 8 Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah. 9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
  • 2 Cor 1:8 : 8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
  • Rev 20:9 : 9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.
  • 1 Sam 19:12 : 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.
  • 1 Sam 20:38 : 38 Jonathan cried after the boy, "Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay!" Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
  • 2 Sam 15:14 : 14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword."
  • 2 Sam 17:21-22 : 21 It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, "Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you." 22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
  • 2 Chr 20:12 : 12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."

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  • 1 Sam 23:23-25
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    23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

    24They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

    25Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

  • 1 Sam 26:1-5
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    1The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?"

    2Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

    3Saul 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.

    4David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

    5David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.

  • 1 Sam 23:12-15
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    12Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" Yahweh said, "They will deliver you up."

    13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

    14David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.

    15David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

  • 1 Sam 26:13
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    13Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

  • 1 Sam 24:1-4
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    1It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi."

    2Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

    3He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.

    4The men of David said to him, "Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, 'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
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    22David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 27:1
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    1David said in his heart, "I shall 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 shall I escape out of his hand."

  • 1 Sam 21:10
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    10David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 18:11-12
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    11and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.

    12Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 23:7-8
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    7It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars."

    8Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

  • 1 Sam 19:10-11
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    10Saul sought to pin David even 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.

    11Saul 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 Sam 23:27-29
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    27But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!"

    28So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.

    29David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

  • 1 Sam 24:7
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    7So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

  • 1 Sam 23:19
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    19Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

  • 1 Sam 24:9
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    9David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

  • 1 Sam 22:6
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    6Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

  • 1 Sam 23:3
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    3David'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 Sam 19:18
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    18Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-2
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    1Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

    2Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

  • 1 Sam 17:31
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    31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 18:29
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    29Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.

  • 1 Sam 14:46
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    46Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
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    1David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

  • 1 Sam 27:4
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    4It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."

  • 1 Sam 14:22
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    22Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
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    19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 18:9
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    9Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
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    20Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion.

  • 1 Sam 17:3
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    3The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

  • 1 Sam 17:11
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    11When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.