1Sa 23:19-20 | TNotes | STEP | 23:19 Hakilah was a hill in the wilderness region of Ziph (23:14 ). • The term Jeshimon is sometimes translated as “wasteland” rather than as a place name. It refers here to a specific wasteland located north of the Dead Sea, on both banks of the Jordan River (see Num 21:20 ).

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‏ 1 Samuel 23:19-20

23:19 ^a Hakilah was a hill in the wilderness region of Ziph (23:14 ^b).

• The term Jeshimon is sometimes translated as “wasteland” rather than as a place name. It refers here to a specific wasteland located north of the Dead Sea, on both banks of the Jordan River (see Num 21:20 ^c).
23:20 ^d Both Keilah (23:12 ^e) and Ziph (23:14 ^f; Ps 54:title ^g) were located in Judah, but neither one provided sanctuary for David, a native of Judah. David’s ascension to power was not the result of his own tribe’s loyalty but because of the will of God.