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


In Context

12 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.|

13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

14 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.

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

16 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

17 He said to him, |Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows.|

1 Samuel 23:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:15While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that Saul had come out to take his life.

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 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.