¹⁶ She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.

²² They went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.

¹⁴ David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.

²⁹ David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

¹ > In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"

²⁵ In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?