<p class="poetry">Arrows<n id="1" /> do not make it flee;p> <p class="poetry">slingstones become like chaff to it.p>

<p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Make haste, my beloved!p> <p class="poetry">Be like a gazelle or a young stagp> <p class="bodytext">on the mountains of spices.p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">All your leaders ran away together &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they fled to a distant place;p> <p class="poetry">all your refugees<n id="2" /> were captured together &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they were captured without a single arrow being shot.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Jacob fled to the country of Aram,p> <p class="poetry">then Israel worked<n id="1" /> to acquire a wife;p> <p class="poetry">he tended sheep to pay for her.p>

<p class="bodytext">Abram said to Sarai, &#8220;Since your<n id="1" /> servant is under your authority,<n id="2" /> do to her whatever you think best.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Then Sarai treated Hagar<n id="4" /> harshly,<n id="5" /> so she ran away from Sarai.<n id="6" />p>

He said, &#8220;Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?&#8221; She replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m running away from<n id="1" /> my mistress, Sarai.&#8221;p>

Jacob also deceived<n id="1" /> Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.<n id="2" />

He left<n id="1" /> with all he owned. He quickly crossed<n id="2" /> the Euphrates River<n id="3" /> and headed for<n id="4" /> the hill country of Gilead.p>

Why did you run away secretly<n id="1" /> and deceive me?<n id="2" /> Why didn&#8217;t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?<n id="3" />

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel<n id="1" /> because there God had revealed himself<n id="2" /> to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

So Jephthah left<n id="1" /> his half-brothers<n id="2" /> and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah&#8217;s gang and traveled with him.<n id="3" />p>

So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.

<p class="bodytext">In the meantime Absalom fled. When the servant who was the watchman looked up, he saw many people coming from the west<n id="1" /> on a road beside the hill.

But Absalom fled and went to King Talmai son of Ammihud of Geshur. And David<n id="1" /> grieved over his son every day.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Treat fairly<n id="1" /> the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs,<n id="2" /> because they helped me<n id="3" /> when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.p>

Hadad,<n id="1" /> who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father&#8217;s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">God also brought against Solomon<n id="1" /> another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.

Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam escaped to Egypt and found refuge with King Shishak of Egypt.<n id="1" /> He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.p>

<n id="1" /> When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.<n id="2" />

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon. Jeroboam returned from Egypt.