OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 23:14

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David stayed 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.

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Verse 14. Ziph, eight miles east of Hebron, (Saint Jerome) towards the southern Carmel. Euseb.—Abdias (verse 3) takes notice of the clefts of the rocks of Edom. S. Jerom says, this mountain was “dark and cloudy.” Menochius.

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