Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”
Parallel Translations
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Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”
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Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
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Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life; for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.'
Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to 1 Samuel 22:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 2:26 To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
- John 10:28-30 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
- Hebrews 12:1-3 Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
- John 18:9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
- John 15:20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
- Matthew 24:9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
- John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
- John 16:2-3 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, he that taketh thy life, shall take mine…
Or, he that taketh thy life, shall take mine also.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 22:23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for…
1Sa 22:23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou [shalt be] in safeguard.
Ver. 23. For he that seeketh.] Tua causa erit mean causa, Thy cause will be my cause, as Charles V said of Julius Flugius, who for his sake had been much wronged by the Duke of Saxony.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Because God will certainly preserve me to the kingdom…
Because God will certainly preserve me to the kingdom which he hath promised; and I by his help will protect thee.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 23. He that seeketh my life seeketh thy…
Verse 23. He that seeketh my life seeketh thy life] The enmity of Saul is directed against thee as well as against me, and thou canst have no safety but in being closely attached to me; and I will defend thee even at the risk of my own life. This he was bound in duty and conscience to do.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The characteristic generosity of David’s disposition breaks out in…
The characteristic generosity of David’s disposition breaks out in these words. He never forgot a friend. (Compare 2Sa 1:26; 2Sa 9:1, etc.) David acknowledges that Saul’s enmity against Abiathar is the consequence of his enmity against himself, and therefore David makes common cause with him.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Saved. We will be as one soul. On this…
Saved. We will be as one soul. On this occasion David composed the 51st Psalm, Quid gloriaris, to reprobate the conduct of Doeg. (Salien) --- We may consider David as the fourth in order of the sacred writers, as he appears after Moses, Josue, and Samuel. (Haydock)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. he that seeketh my life] Our lives are…
23. he that seeketh my life] Our lives are both in danger from one common enemy, so that our interests will be identical.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Ver. 23. (HARETH.)
Ver. 23. (HARETH.)
The defender of the persecuted.
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As David afforded protection to Abiathar, so Christ affords protection to those who betake themselves to him. This is not a mere resemblance, but is directly involved in that (his royal office) wherein David was a type or Divine foreshadowing of "the King of kings." They
I ENDURE PERSECUTION FOR HIS SAKE. "He that seeketh my life seeketh thy life." They do so
1. Because of their union with him, and partaking of his life and righteousness, to which "this present evil world" is opposed.
2. Because of their love to him, which will not suffer them to leave him, or be unfaithful to him for the sake of gaining the favour of the world.
3. Because it has been thus ordained. "Unto you it is given," etc. (Php_1:29) "With persecutions", (Mar_10:30) which are an occasion of spiritual blessing. (Mat_5:10)
II MUST ABIDE IN HIS FELLOWSHIP. "Abide thou with me.
1. By unwavering reliance upon him. (Joh_15:4-7; 1Jn_2:28)
2. By intimate intercourse with him.
3. By constant obedience to him.
III FIND SAFETY UNDER HIS PROTECTION. "Fear not; with me thou art in safe guard." "David spoke thus in the firm belief that the Lord would deliver him from his foe and give him the kingdom" (Keil). Christ has "all power in heaven and in earth," and he will assuredly be "a hiding place from the wind and a covert from the tempest.
1. Because of his love to them.
2. Because of his regard for his kingdom, to which they belong, and which they represent.
3. Because of his express and faithful promise. "Fear not." If the worst that can befall them should happen, even then
Thou, Saviour, art their charmed Bower, Their magic Ring, their Rock, their Tower. D.
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