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1 Samuel 23

1 Sam. 23:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then camed up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
the Ziphites
Ziyphiy (Hebrew #2130)
a Ziphite or inhabitant of Ziph
KJV usage: Ziphim, Ziphite.
Pronounce: zee-fee'
Origin: patrial from 2128
to Saul
Sha'uwl (Hebrew #7586)
asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites
KJV usage: Saul, Shaul.
Pronounce: shaw-ool'
Origin: passive participle of 7592
to Gibeah
Gib`ah (Hebrew #1390)
Gibah; the name of three places in Palestine
KJV usage: Gibeah, the hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: the same as 1389
, saying
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Doth not David
David (Hebrew #1732)
Daviyd {daw-veed'}; from the same as 1730; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse
KJV usage: David.
Pronounce: daw-veed'
Origin: rarely (fully)
hide
cathar (Hebrew #5641)
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: be absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, X surely.
Pronounce: saw-thar'
Origin: a primitive root
himself with us in strong holds
mtsad (Hebrew #4679)
or (feminine) mtsadah {mets-aw-daw'}; from 6679; a fastness (as a covert of ambush)
KJV usage: castle, fort, (strong) hold, munition.
Pronounce: mets-ad'
Origin: or mtsad {mets-awd'}
in the wood
choresh (Hebrew #2793)
a forest (perhaps as furnishing the material for fabric)
KJV usage: bough, forest, shroud, wood.
Pronounce: kho'-resh
Origin: from 2790
, in the hill
gib`ah (Hebrew #1389)
a hillock
KJV usage: hill, little hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: feminine from the same as 1387
of Hachilah
Chakiylah (Hebrew #2444)
dark; Chakilah, a hill in Palestine
KJV usage: Hachilah.
Pronounce: khak-ee-law'
Origin: from the same as 2447
, which is λon the south
yamiyn (Hebrew #3225)
the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south
KJV usage: + left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
Pronounce: yaw-meen'
Origin: from 3231
of μJeshimon
yshiymown (Hebrew #3452)
a desolation
KJV usage: desert, Jeshimon, solitary, wilderness.
Pronounce: yesh-ee-mone'
Origin: from 3456
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1 Sam. 26:1• 1And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, facing the waste? (1 Sam. 26:1)
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Psa. 54•  (Psa. 54)
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on the right hand.
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or, the wilderness.

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David,
Gibeah,
Hachilah,
Jeshimon,
Saul,
South,
Wood,
Ziphims; Ziphites

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the Ziphites.
1 Sam. 22:7‑8• 7Then Saul said to his servants that stood by him, Hear now, ye Benjaminites: will the son of Jesse give every one of you also fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
 8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that informs me when my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or informs me that my son has stirred up my servant as a lier-in-wait against me, as at this day? (1 Sam. 22:7‑8)
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1 Sam. 26:1• 1And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, facing the waste? (1 Sam. 26:1)
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Psa. 54:1• 1To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David; when the Ziphites came, and said to Saul, Is not David hiding himself with us? O God, by thy name save me, and by thy strength do me justice. (Psa. 54:1)
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Psa. 54•  (Psa. 54)
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Psa. 54:3‑4• 3For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.
 4Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that uphold my soul. (Psa. 54:3‑4)
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Prov. 29:12• 12If a ruler hearken to lying words, all his servants are wicked. (Prov. 29:12)
Hachilah.Calmet states, that Hachilah was a mountain about ten miles south of Jericho, where Jonathan Maccabæus built the castle of Massada, west of the Dead Sea, and not far from En-gedi.
1 Sam. 26:1,3• 1And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, facing the waste?
 3And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which faces the waste, by the way side. And David abode in the wilderness; and when he saw that Saul had come after him into the wilderness, (1 Sam. 26:1,3)
on the south.
Heb. on the right hand.
Jeshimon.
or, thewilderness. Eusebius places Jeshimon ten miles south of Jericho, near the Dead Sea; which agrees extremely well with the position of Hachilah, as stated by Calmet.
• This is where Psalm 54 comes in, composed “when the Ziphites came, and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding himself with us?” In contrast to Saul who invokes the name of Jehovah, David, rejected from the midst of the people, without any apparent link to Jehovah, calls on the name of God: “O God, by Thy name save me, and by Thy strength do me justice” (Psa. 54:1). (“1 Samuel 23” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the waste?