Quotes About Fear

“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ëI have come to sacrifice to the LORD.í

So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”

On hearing the words of the Philistine, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and greatly afraid.

When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.

“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

When Saul saw that David was very successful, he was afraid of him.

he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was Davidís enemy.

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.

Then Saul sent messengers to Davidís house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But Davidís wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”

And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ëHelp me get away, or I will kill you!í”

Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”

Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

Now David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.

Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?

And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”

Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your fatherís house.

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

But Davidís men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

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.”