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16 “Escape to the hill country,” she told them. “Hide there for three days from the men searching for you. Then, when they have returned, you can go on your way.”

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16 She said to them, “Go to the hills(A) so the pursuers(B) will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days(C) until they return, and then go on your way.”(D)

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25 Rahab the prostitute is another example. She was shown to be right with God by her actions when she hid those messengers and sent them safely away by a different road.

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25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?(A)

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14 David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph. Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn’t let Saul find him.

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14 David stayed in the wilderness(A) strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph.(B) Day after day Saul searched(C) for him, but God did not(D) give David into his hands.

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Psalm 11

For the choir director: A psalm of David.

I trust in the Lord for protection.
So why do you say to me,
    “Fly like a bird to the mountains for safety!

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Psalm 11

For the director of music. Of David.

In the Lord I take refuge.(A)
    How then can you say to me:
    “Flee(B) like a bird to your mountain.(C)

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29 [a]David then went to live in the strongholds of En-gedi.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:29 Verse 23:29 is numbered 24:1 in Hebrew text.

29 And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds(A) of En Gedi.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 23:29 In Hebrew texts this verse (23:29) is numbered 24:1.

22 The spies went up into the hill country and stayed there three days. The men who were chasing them searched everywhere along the road, but they finally returned without success.

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22 When they left, they went into the hills and stayed there three days,(A) until the pursuers(B) had searched all along the road and returned without finding them.

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