⁴ He left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

Psalm 11

Song of Trust in God

To the leader. Of David.

²³ When they persecute you in this town, flee to the next, for truly I tell you, you will not have finished going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

¹² “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what it fears or be in dread.^{(A) 13} But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.^{(B) 14} He will become a sanctuary, a stone one strikes against; for both houses of Israel he will become a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.^(C)

¹¹ But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Would a man like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!”

²⁵ He stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king’s seer and of the prophet Nathan, for the commandment was from the Lord through his prophets.^(A)

²⁹ Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the records of the seer Samuel, and in the records of the prophet Nathan, and in the records of the seer Gad,

⁹ The Lord spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,

¹⁶ Some Benjaminites and Judahites came to the stronghold to David.

¹¹ When David rose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,^(A)