1 Samuel 23:14
David 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.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
15David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.
Cross References
Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
1 Samuel 27:1David 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 32:7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psalms 54:3For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
Proverbs 4:16For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
Jeremiah 36:26The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 23:8-14
David Escapes from Keilah. ( b. c. 1057.) 7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars. 8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. 9 And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. 10 Then said David, O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly… Read the whole commentary →