1 Samuel 23:14 Cross References - MSB

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.

²⁴ Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

⁵⁵ Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

⁷ When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”

¹ David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

¹ For the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain! ² For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart. ³ If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

⁷ You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

³² Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them, ³³ the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.

³ For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah ⁴ Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

¹⁶ For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

²⁶ Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.

³¹ What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

¹¹ my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion. ¹⁸ And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.