Saul Pursues David

1 Samuel 23:15

In 11 translations

BSB: While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
KJV: And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
WEB: David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.
ASV: And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
LSV: And David sees that Saul has come out to seek his life, and David [is] in the wilderness of Ziph, in a forest.
YLT: And David seeth that Saul hath come out to seek his life, and David [is] in the wilderness of Ziph, in a forest.
DBY: And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
DRC: And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David was in the desert of Ziph, in a wood.
GNV: And Dauid sawe that Saul was come out for to seeke his life: and Dauid was in the wildernes of Ziph in the wood.
JPS: And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
LXXE: And David perceived that Saul went forth to seek David; and David was in the dry mountain in the New Ziph.The Hebrew הוש has here been read as if חוש.

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

WLC: וַיַּ֣רְא דָוִ֔ד כִּֽי־יָצָ֥א שָׁא֖וּל לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אֶת־נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וְדָוִ֥ד בְּמִדְבַּר־זִ֖יף בַּחֹֽרְשָׁה׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
LXX-Br: Καὶ εἶδε Δαυὶδ, ὅτι ἐξέρχεται Σαοὺλ τοῦ ζητεῖν τὸν Δαυίδ· καὶ Δαυὶδ ἦν ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ αὐχμώδει ἐν τῇ Καινῇ Ζίφ.

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