Quotes about Protection
so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
— 1 Samuel 19:2
So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
— 1 Samuel 19:18
But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
— 1 Samuel 20:13
and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
— 1 Samuel 20:15
Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.
— 1 Samuel 20:21
From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
— 1 Samuel 22:3
So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.
— 1 Samuel 22:4
Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks your life is seeking mine as well. You will be safe with me.”
— 1 Samuel 22:23
Then David and his men went to Keilah, fought against the Philistines, and carried off their livestock, striking them with a mighty blow. So David saved the people of Keilah.
— 1 Samuel 23:5
And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
— 1 Samuel 23:14
And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
— 1 Samuel 23:29
Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.
— 1 Samuel 25:15