12 Bible Verses about Others Who Fled

Someone escaped, arrived, and reported what had happened to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, whose brothers Eshcol and Aner were allied with Abram.

Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it's a small one. Let me escape there! It's a small one, isn't it? That way I'll stay alive!"

Moreover, Jacob had deceived Laban the Aramean, because he had never told him that he was intending to leave.

Three days later, somebody reported to Laban that Jacob had left,

ran away from me secretly, and stole from me by not keeping me informed. Otherwise, I could have sent you off with a party and singing, accompanied by a band playing tambourines and harps.

Then God said, "Throw it to the ground." He threw it to the ground and it became a snake. Moses ran away from it.

The king told the guards, who were standing beside him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD because they supported David, and because they knew he was fleeing, but didn't inform me." But the officials of the king did not want to lift their hands to attack the priests of the LORD.

But three years later, two of Shimei's servants escaped to Maacah's son Achish, the king of Gath.

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and in the countryside.

Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them, got the better of them, and so violently overpowered all of them that they fled out of the house naked and bruised.

Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.

so that by these two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge in him might be encouraged to seize the hope set before us.