1 Samuel 23:15

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

1 Samuel 23:15 in Other Translations

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

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

15 One day near Horesh, David received the news that Saul was on the way to Ziph to search for him and kill him.

15 David kept out of the way in the wilderness of Ziph, secluded at Horesh, since it was plain that Saul was determined to hunt him down.

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

1 Samuel 23:15 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 23:15

And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life
Either he saw him with his bodily eyes from the top of the mountain where he was, ( 1 Samuel 23:14 ) ; or he perceived, he understood by information given him by his friends, it may be by Jonathan, or by spies he sent to observe his motions:

and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood;
where he and his men could hide themselves among the trees in it; sometimes he was in a mountain in this wilderness, and sometimes in a wood, where he thought himself the safest; thus was this great man obliged to shift about for his safety.

1 Samuel 23:15 In-Context

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 wilderness 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.”

Cross References

• 1. S 1 Samuel 20:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "he was afraid because"