1 Samuel 26:1

for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.

Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.

David therefore departed from there, and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.

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.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.

Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.

Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.

of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,

Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

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

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.

The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.

She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon,

However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.