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Will Saul come down just as Your servant has heard? O L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant. And the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said, He will come down. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then David said, Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said, They will surrender you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Saul Pursues David</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Now David became aware that Saul had come out to seek his life while David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jonathan, Sauls son, arose and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Thus he said to him, Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul my father will not find you, and you will be king over Israel and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>So the two of them made a covenant before the L<font size="1">ORD</font>; and David stayed at Horesh while Jonathan went to his house. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, Is David not hiding with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Now then, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to do so; and our part <i>shall be</i> to surrender him into the kings hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Saul said, May you be blessed of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, for you have had compassion on me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Go now, make more sure, and investigate and see his place where his haunt is, <i>and</i> who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very cunning. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>When Saul and his men went to seek <i>him,</i> they told David, and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard <i>it,</i> he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>But a messenger came to Saul, saying, Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines; therefore they called that place the Rock of Escape. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of Engedi. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_samuel/23.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_samuel/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Now when David understood, that Saul secretly prepared evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest: Bring hither the ephod. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_samuel/23.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And when David knew that Saul devised mischief against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_samuel/23.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And David knew that Saul devised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_samuel/23.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And David knew that Saul secretly plotted mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_samuel/23.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_samuel/23.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And David knoweth that against him Saul is devising the evil, and saith unto Abiathar the priest, 'Bring nigh the ephod.'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/jonathan_the_pattern_of_friendship.htm">Jonathan, the Pattern of Friendship</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? 2. And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. 3. And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/jonathan_the_pattern_of_friendship.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the_life_of_david/vi_the_exilecontinued.htm">The Exile --Continued. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">We have one psalm which the title connects with the beginning of David's stay at Adullam,--the thirty-fourth. The supposition that it dates from that period throws great force into many parts of it, and gives a unity to what is else apparently fragmentary and disconnected. Unlike those already considered, which were pure soliloquies, this is full of exhortation and counsel, as would naturally be the case if it were written when friends and followers began to gather to his standard. It reads like <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the_life_of_david/vi_the_exilecontinued.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">The Life of David</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/samuel.htm">Samuel</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Alike from the literary and the historical point of view, the book[1] of Samuel stands midway between the book of Judges and the book of Kings. As we have already seen, the Deuteronomic book of Judges in all probability ran into Samuel and ended in ch. xii.; while the story of David, begun in Samuel, embraces the first two chapters of the first book of Kings. The book of Samuel is not very happily named, as much of it is devoted to Saul and the greater part to David; yet it is not altogether inappropriate, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/samuel.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_samuel/23-9.htm">1 Samuel 23:9 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_samuel/23-9.htm">1 Samuel 23:9 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_samuel/23-9.htm">1 Samuel 23:9 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_samuel/23-9.htm">1 Samuel 23:9 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_samuel/23-9.htm">1 Samuel 23:9 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_samuel/23-9.htm">1 Samuel 23:9 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_samuel/23-9.htm">1 Samuel 23:9 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_samuel/23-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 23:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 23:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_samuel/23-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 23:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 23:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_samuel/23-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>