1 Samuel 23 in the early church

[LXX: 1 Kingdoms; Vulgate: 1 Kings]

18 passages quote, allude to, or echo 1 Samuel 23, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 6 · 7 · 9 · 14 · 19 · 25

1 Samuel 23:6

(Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
1 Sam 23:6–9	Question 46, section 8 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–384
1 Sam 23:6	Letter 29.3 · Jerome	quotation, high confidence	ca. 370–419

1 Samuel 23:7

When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
1 Sam 23:7	Letter 29.3 · Jerome	quotation, high confidence	ca. 370–419

1 Samuel 23:9

When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
1 Sam 23:9	Homilies on Numbers 13.6 · Origen	allusion, low confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
1 Sam 23:9	Letter 29.3 · Jerome	quotation, high confidence	ca. 370–419

1 Samuel 23:14

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.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
1 Sam 23:14	Tractates on the Psalms 62.1 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 360–367
1 Sam 23:14	Tractates on the Psalms 139.1 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 360–367
1 Sam 23:14	On Naboth 51 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-390
1 Sam 23:14	In Praise of the Desert 17 · Eucherius of Lyon	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 427-428
1 Sam 23:14	Part 2, chapter 25 · Quodvultdeus of Carthage	allusion, high confidence	ca. 445-450

1 Samuel 23:19

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
1 Sam 23:19	PG 12:1073 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
1 Sam 23:19	Letter to Marcellinus 20 · Athanasius of Alexandria	allusion, medium confidence	uncertain, after 335
1 Sam 23:19	History of the Arians 67 · Athanasius of Alexandria	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 357
1 Sam 23:19	Tractates on the Psalms 53.2 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 360–367
1 Sam 23:19	Tractates on the Psalms 118.17.10 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 360–367
1 Sam 23:19	Psalm 53 · Apollinaris of Laodicea	allusion, high confidence	uncertain (fourth to sixth century)
1 Sam 23:19	Apology of the Prophet David 41 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 384-390

1 Samuel 23:25

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.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
1 Sam 23:25	Exposition of Psalm 118 19.7.1 · Ambrose	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386-397