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Bible Verses About Escape

This collection includes 50 passages about Escape. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

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So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

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And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

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Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

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But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

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Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

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The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

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And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

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And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

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But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

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So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

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And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

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Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:

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Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

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And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

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But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

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That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?

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Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

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And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

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And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

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And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

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And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

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And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

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And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.

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See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

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Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

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And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

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And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

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There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

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So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

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(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

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Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

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Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

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David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.

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And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.

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When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

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