1 Samuel 23:14
And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
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.
And David abode 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 delivered him not into his hand.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- a mountain
- Psalm 11:1–3
- the wilderness
- Ziph is mentioned in Joshua with Carmel and Maon, near which it seems to have been situated; and as we have mention of Carmel and Maon in the history of David, as adjoining to Ziph, it cannot be doubted that by the Ziph, in the wilderness of which David now lay, and where was the hill of Hachilah, is to be understood Ziph near Carmel and Maon.
- Joshua 15:24, 55
- Saul
- 1 Samuel 27:1; Psalm 54:3, 4; Proverbs 1:16; Proverbs 4:16
- but God
- 1 Samuel 23:7; Psalm 32:7; Psalm 37:32, 33; Psalm 54:3, 4; Proverbs 21:30; Jeremiah 36:26; Romans 8:31; 2 Timothy 3:11; 2 Timothy 4:17, 18