Quotes About Safety

Then I will send a boy and say, ëGo, find the arrows!í Now, if I expressly say to him, ëLook, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,í then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.

So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his fatherís household heard about it, they went down to him there.

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.

Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks your life is seeking mine as well. You will be safe with me.”

Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.

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.

They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.

So do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of the LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to look for a flea, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

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

Now send quickly and tell David, ëDo not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.í”

But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar.

When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.

“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.”

and tell them that this is what the king says: ëPut this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.í”

But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”

And the guards stood with weapons in hand surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.

Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.

They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,

In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.