Psalm 55:7
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7 truly, I would flee far away;
I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
Jeremiah 9:2
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2 [a]O that I had in the desert
a traveler’s lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all adulterers,
a band of traitors.(A)
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- 9.2 9.1 in Heb
Jeremiah 37:12
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12 Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his share of property[a] among the people there.
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- 37.12 Or to slip away
Proverbs 6:4-5
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4 Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;(A)
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,[a]
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.(B)
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- 6.5 Cn: Heb from the hand
2 Samuel 17:21-22
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21 After they had gone, the men came up out of the well and went and told King David. They said to David, “Go and cross the water quickly, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.”(A) 22 So David and all the people who were with him set out and crossed the Jordan; by daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.
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2 Samuel 15:14
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14 Then David said to all his officials who were with him at Jerusalem, “Get up! Let us flee, or there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Hurry, or he will soon overtake us, and bring disaster down upon us, and attack the city with the edge of the sword.”(A)
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1 Samuel 27:1
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David Serves King Achish of Gath
27 David said in his heart, “I shall certainly perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”
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