Quotes about Survival
Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.
— 1 Samuel 19:10
Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
— 1 Samuel 19:11
So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
— 1 Samuel 19:12
But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.
— 1 Samuel 22:20
While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
— 1 Samuel 23:15
David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.
— 1 Samuel 27:11
When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
— 1 Samuel 30:3
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
— 1 Samuel 30:11
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
— 1 Samuel 30:12
“Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.
— 2 Samuel 1:3
Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.
— 2 Samuel 17:12
And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
— 2 Samuel 21:5