בָּרַח

“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

The central crossbar in the middle of the frames shall extend from one end to the other.

He made the central crossbar to run through the center of the frames, from one end to the other.

Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”

Then Jotham ran away, escaping to Beer, and he lived there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.

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

So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.

Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”

That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.

Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.

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

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

And when Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

…because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.

Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”

Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”

And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.

But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.

After three years, however, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And Shimei was told, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”

But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.

And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,

Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.

…and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families living in Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath).

These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.

But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!”

I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields.

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.