⁸ and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

²⁴ Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

⁴⁴ and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

¹⁴ And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

¹⁹ Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

¹ And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

¹ Save me, O God, by thy name, And judge me in thy might.