Quotes about Survival

So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.

But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.

While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.

David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.

“Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.

Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.

And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.