Psalms 55:7 Cross References - ISV

⁷ Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude

¹ David Escapes to Philistine TerritoryDavid told himself, “One of these days I’ll perish by Saul’s hand. There is nothing better for me to do than to escape to Philistine territory. Saul will give up searching for me anymore within the borders of Israel, so I’ll escape from him.”

¹⁴ So David told all of his staff who were with him in Jerusalem, “Let’s get up and get out of here! Otherwise, none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry, or he’ll overtake us quickly, bring disaster on all of us, and execute the inhabitants of the city!”

²¹ A little while later, the men crawled up out of the well and went off to talk to King David. They told David, “Get up! Cross the water quickly, because this is what Ahithophel advised about you…” ²² So David got up and all of his entourage crossed the Jordan River. Everyone had crossed the Jordan River by dawn’s first light.

⁴ Don’t allow yourself to sleep or even to close your eyes. ⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hunter’s hand, or like a bird from a fowler’s hand.

² Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

¹² Jeremiah left Jerusalem to go to the territory of Benjamin to take possession of his property there among the people.