1 Samuel 27:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

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  • 1 Sam 26:21 : 21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

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  • 1 Sam 21:10
    81%

    10David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 27:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.

    12Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.

  • 1 Sam 27:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

    2David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

    3David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

  • 1 Sam 27:5
    77%

    5David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?

  • 1 Sam 23:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    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 abode 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: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

  • 1 Sam 19:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    19It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.

  • 1 Sam 21:12
    75%

    12David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    75%

    9David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?

  • 1 Sam 17:31
    75%

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

  • 1 Sam 24:1
    75%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    75%

    22David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men got them up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 26:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

    4David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.

    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 host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.

  • 1 Sam 18:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David even to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice.

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

  • 1 Sam 23:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

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

    26Saul 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 compassed David and his men round about to take them.

  • 1 Sam 24:7
    73%

    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 19:10
    73%

    10Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

  • 1 Sam 24:3
    73%

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

  • 1 Sam 27:7
    73%

    7The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

  • 1 Sam 14:46
    73%

    46Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

  • 1 Sam 29:3
    73%

    3Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? 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, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away [to me] to this day?

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    73%

    9David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 23:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    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 19:8
    72%

    8There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    72%

    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David.

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    72%

    1After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 29:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6Then 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 host 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.

    7Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.

    8David said to Achish, But what have I done? and 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 Sam 17:57
    71%

    57As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Sam 18:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.

    30Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
    71%

    5David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

  • 1 Sam 14:37
    71%

    37Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he didn't answer him that day.

  • 1 Sam 26:1
    71%

    1The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    71%

    1It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go out with me in the host, you and your men.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
    71%

    10Then said David, 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 17:15
    71%

    15Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 22:6
    71%

    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 22:1
    71%

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