Ziph
City in the Bible
Located in: Judah
Location: 31.48° N, 35.13° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)
Several places in the Bible may have this name. The verses below may mix them up.
Mentioned in 6 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Ziph is mentioned
1 Samuel 23:14–15
14 And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
15 While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
Read in context1 Samuel 23:24–25
24 So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
25 and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.
Read in context1 Samuel 26:2
So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.
Read in context2 Chronicles 11:8–9
Joshua 15:55–56
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