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Naioth

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Named at 1 Samuel 19:18, where David and Samuel go and live: “He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.” At 19:19 Saul is told, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah”; at 19:22 Saul asks, “Where are Samuel and David?” and one says, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah”; at 19:23 Saul goes there to Naioth in Ramah, and God’s Spirit comes on him also, and he goes on, and prophesies, until he comes to Naioth in Ramah. At 20:1 David flees from Naioth in Ramah, and comes and speaks to Jonathan.

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1SA 19:18–24, engwebp
¹⁸Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
¹⁹Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
²⁰Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
²¹When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
²²Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”
²³He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
²⁴He also stripped off his clothes. He also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
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1SA 20:1–11, engwebp
¹David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
²He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”
³David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
⁴Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
⁵David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
⁶If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
⁷If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
⁸Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”
⁹Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?”
¹⁰Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”
¹¹Jonathan said to David, “Come! Let’s go out into the field.” They both went out into the field.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Naioth” by name and 5 shared verses. The centre of the area given for its leading identification, within 2 km of Ramah 4 (confidence 683 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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within 2 km of Ramah 4
OpenBible.info confidence 683 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.85434, 35.23161
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Naioth” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (1) — At Naioth in Ramah, Saul’s messengers and then Saul prophesy

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1 Samuel 19:18 Open that verse

Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

1 Samuel 19:19 Open that verse

Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

1 Samuel 19:22 Open that verse

Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”

1 Samuel 19:23 Open that verse

He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

1 Samuel 20:1 Open that verse

David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”

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Entry: Naioth (place-naioth)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/naioth
Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 19:18, where David and Samuel go and live: “He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.” At 19:19 Saul is told, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah”; at 19:22 Saul asks, “Where are Samuel and David?” and one says, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah”; at 19:23 Saul goes there to Naioth in Ramah, and God’s Spirit comes on him also, and he goes on, and prophesies, until he comes to Naioth in Ramah. At 20:1 David flees from Naioth in Ramah, and comes and speaks to Jonathan.
Cited evidence: 1SA 19:18–24, engwebp / 1SA 20:1–11, engwebp
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