En Gedi

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• 1SA 23:25–29, engwebp

  ²⁵Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

  ²⁶Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

  ²⁷But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!”

  ²⁸So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.

  ²⁹David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

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• 1SA 24:1–7, engwebp

  ¹When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”

  ²Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

  ³He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave.

  ⁴David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.

  ⁵Afterward, David’s heart struck him because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

  ⁶He said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s anointed.”

  ⁷So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

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• 2CH 20:1–4, engwebp

  ¹After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

  ²Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).

  ³Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek the LORD. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

  ⁴Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from the LORD. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD.

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• EZK 47:1–12, engwebp

  ¹He brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, for the front of the temple faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the temple, on the south of the altar.

  ²Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east. Behold, waters ran out on the right side.

  ³When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

  ⁴Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist.

  ⁵Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be walked through.

  ⁶He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and caused me to return to the bank of the river.

  ⁷Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

  ⁸Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.

  ⁹It will happen that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.

  ¹⁰It will happen that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.

  ¹¹But its swamps and marshes will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.

  ¹²By the river banks, on both sides, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

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• SNG 1:9–17, engwebp

  ⁹I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

  ¹⁰Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

  ¹¹We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver.

  ¹²While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

  ¹³My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

  ¹⁴My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

  ¹⁵Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

  ¹⁶Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.

  ¹⁷The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.

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