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, ¹  but God did not deliver David ²  into his hand.

1 Samuel 25:4

25:4 When David heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

1 Samuel 23:15

23:15 David realized ³  that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.

1 Samuel 4:8

4:8 Too bad for us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert!

1 Samuel 23:24-25

23:24 So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. 23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ⁴  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 24:1

David Spares Saul’s Life

24:1 (24:2) When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, “Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi.”

1 Samuel 26:2

26:2 So Saul arose and

went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.

1 Samuel 25:21

25:21 Now David had been thinking, ⁵  “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

1 Samuel 26:3

26:3 Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the desert. When he realized that Saul had come to the desert to find ⁶  him,

1 Samuel 17:28

17:28 When David’s ⁷  oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry ⁸  with David and said, “Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! ⁹  You have come down here to watch the battle!”

[23:14]  ¹ tn Heb “all the days.”

[23:14]  ² tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:15]  ³ tn Heb “saw.”

[23:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “to search.”

[25:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “said.”

[26:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “after.”

[17:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:28]  ¹² tn Heb “the anger of Eliab became hot.”

[17:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”