13 So David and his men, numbering about 600,(A) left Keilah at once and moved from place to place.(B) When it was reported to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he called off the expedition. 14 David then stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph.(C) Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand David over to him.(D)

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15 David was in the Wilderness of Ziph in Horesh when he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.

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13 So David and his men,(A) about six hundred in number, left Keilah and kept moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he did not go there.

14 David stayed in the wilderness(B) strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph.(C) Day after day Saul searched(D) for him, but God did not(E) give David into his hands.

15 While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that[a] Saul had come out to take his life.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 23:15 Or he was afraid because