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


In Context

12 Again David asked, "Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men to Saul?" And the Lord said, "They will."

13 So David and his men, 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 desert strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

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

16 And Saul's son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God.

17 "Don't be afraid," he said. "My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this."

1st Samuel 23:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:15And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:15And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David was in the desert of Ziph, in a wood.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:15And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:15And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:15And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:15And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:15David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:15And David seeth that Saul hath come out to seek his life, and David is in the wilderness of Ziph, in a forest.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:15And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.