1SA-23:1  Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines 
fight

against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.



1SA-23:2  Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I 
go and

smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and 
smite

the Philistines, and save Keilah.



1SA-23:3  And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid 
here in

Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the 
armies of

the Philistines?



1SA-23:4  Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD

answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah: for I will 
deliver

the Philistines into thine hand.



1SA-23:5  So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with 
the

Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a

great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.



1SA-23:6  And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of 
Ahimelech fled

to David to Keilah, [that] he came down [with] an ephod in his 
hand.



1SA-23:7  And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. 
And Saul

said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, 
by

entering into a town that hath gates and bars.



1SA-23:8  And Saul called all the people together to war, to go 
down

to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.



1SA-23:9  And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief 
against

him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.



1SA-23:10  Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant 
hath

certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy 
the

city for my sake.



1SA-23:11  Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? 
will

Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, 
I

beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come 
down.



1SA-23:12  Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me 
and my

men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver 
[thee]

up.



1SA-23:13  Then David and his men, [which were] about six 
hundred,

arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they 
could

go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and 
he

forbare to go forth.



1SA-23:14  And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and

remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul 
sought him

every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.



1SA-23:15  And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life:
 and

David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.



1SA-23:16  And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into 
the

wood, and strengthened his hand in God.



1SA-23:17  And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul 
my

father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, 
and I

shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.



1SA-23:18  And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and 
David

abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.



1SA-23:19  Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, 
Doth

not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in 
the

hill of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon?



1SA-23:20  Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the

desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to 
deliver

him into the king's hand.



1SA-23:21  And Saul said, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye 
have

compassion on me.



1SA-23:22  Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his 
place

where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there: for it is 
told me

[that] he dealeth very subtly.



1SA-23:23  See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking 
places

where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the 
certainty,

and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in 
the

land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of

Judah.



1SA-23:24  And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but 
David and

his men [were] in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the 
south of

Jeshimon.



1SA-23:25  Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they 
told

David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the 
wilderness

of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in 
the

wilderness of Maon.



1SA-23:26  And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David 
and

his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to 
get away

for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his 
men

round about to take them.



1SA-23:27  But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste 
thee,

and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.



1SA-23:28  Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, 
and went

against the Philistines: therefore they called that place

Selahammahlekoth.



1SA-23:29  And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong 
holds at

Engedi.





 

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