Place
Naioth
Uncertain location. Scholars propose different sites. The dot marks one proposal.
A place in Ramah where Samuel led a company of prophets. David fled here to Samuel. Saul's messengers came to take him and began to prophesy, and so did Saul, so that people said "Is Saul also among the prophets?" David then fled from Naioth to Jonathan. The site is not known.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- David, 1 Samuel 19:18
So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
- Samuel, 1 Samuel 19:18
So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
- Saul (King), 1 Samuel 19:24
And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
- David, 1 Samuel 20:1
And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).