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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,
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