Quotes about Fleeing
But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.
- Mark Buchanan
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
- Genesis 31:20
So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:21
If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
- Exodus 21:13
And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
- Leviticus 26:17
But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
- Numbers 35:26
The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
- Deuteronomy 28:7
So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.
- Joshua 7:4
He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”
- Joshua 20:6
Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Judges 4:17
When all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined Saul and Jonathan in the battle.
- 1 Samuel 14:22
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