1 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ¹  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 20:38

20:38 Jonathan called out to the servant, “Hurry! Go faster! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s servant retrieved the arrow and came back to his master.

1 Samuel 21:10-12

21:10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath. 21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

21:12 David thought about what they said ²  and was very afraid of King Achish of Gath.

1 Samuel 22:3

22:3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay ³  with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”

1 Samuel 23:14

23:14 David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, ⁴  but God did not deliver David ⁵  into his hand.

1 Samuel 27:1

David Aligns Himself with the Philistines

27:1 David thought to himself, ⁶  “One of these days I’m going to 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 despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

¹ tn Heb “your life.”

² tn Heb “placed these matters in his heart.”

³ tn Heb “go forth.”

⁴ tn Heb “all the days.”

⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “said to his heart.”