Quotes About Search

a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ëLet us go to Dothan.í” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”

Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ëNo shrine prostitute has been here.í”

So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjaminís sack.

This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micahís house in the hill country of Ephraim.

“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”

In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”

One day the donkeys of Saulís father Kish wandered off, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants and go look for the donkeys.”

So Saul passed through the hill country of Ephraim and then through the land of Shalishah, but did not find the donkeys. He and the servant went through the region of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they went through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.

When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachelís tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ëThe donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”í

Now Saulís uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” “To look for the donkeys,” Saul replied. “When we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”

Then he had the tribe of Benjamin come forward by its clans, and the clan of Matri was selected. Finally, Saul son of Kish was selected. But when they looked for him, they could not find him.

So again they inquired of the LORD, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD replied, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”

Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.

Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”

So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

And when Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they all went in search of him; but David learned of this and went down to the stronghold.

“Where is he?” replied the king. And Ziba said, “Indeed, he is in Lo-debar at the house of Machir son of Ammiel.”