gSee Gen. 33:15
qSee Judg. 1:16
Genesis 4:16
16Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, ▼▼ Nod means wandering
east of Eden. Genesis 16:6-8
6But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.7The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to bShur. 8And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.”
1 Samuel 22:5
5Then the prophet cGad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.1 Samuel 27
David Flees to the Philistines
1Then 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.” 2So David arose and went over, he and dthe six hundred men who were with him, eto Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. 3And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with fhis two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal’s widow. 4And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he no longer sought him.5Then David said to Achish, “If gI have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?” 6So that day Achish gave him hZiklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day. 7 iAnd the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
8Now David jand his men went up and made raids against kthe Geshurites, lthe Girzites, and mthe Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, nas far as Shur, to the land of Egypt. 9And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish. 10When Achish asked, “Where have you omade a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah,” or, “Against the Negeb of pthe Jerahmeelites,” or, “Against the Negeb of qthe Kenites.” 11And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, “lest they should tell about us and say, ‘So David has done.’” Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines. 12And Achish trusted David, thinking, “He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant.”
1 Kings 19:9
The Lord Speaks to Elijah
9There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, rthe word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”Nehemiah 6:11-13
11But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? ▼▼Or would go into the temple to save his life
I will not go in.” 12And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, tbut he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 13For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me. Proverbs 21:16
16One who wanders from the way of good senseuwill rest in the assembly of the dead.
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