📖WEB · 1 Samuel 23:15
What does 1 Samuel 23:15 mean?
"David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood."
— 1 Samuel 23:15 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”
They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.
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