1Sa 19:11, 20:38, 21:10-12, 22:3, 23:14, 27:1 | ESV | STEP | Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning . But Michal , David’s wife , told him, If you do not escape with your life tonight , tomorrow you will be killed .

1 Samuel 19:11

11 ^aSaul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

1 Samuel 20:38

38 And Jonathan called after the boy, “Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!” So Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.

1 Samuel 21:10-12

David Flees to Gath

10 And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to ^bAchish the king of Gath. 11 And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? ^cDid they not sing to one another of him in dances,

‘Saul has struck down his thousands,
and David his ten thousands’?”
12 And David ^dtook these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

1 Samuel 22:3

3 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay ^{▼▼Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew go out} with you, till I know what God will do for me.”

1 Samuel 23:14

14 And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country ^fof the wilderness of ^gZiph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

1 Samuel 27:1

David Flees to the Philistines

1 Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”