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1Samuel 23
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23Then they told David, saying, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are plundering the threshing floors."H5046H1732H559H6430H3898H7084H8154H1637 2So David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines, and deliver Keilah."H1732H7592H3068H559H3212H5221H6430H3068H559H1732H3212H5221H6430H3467H7084 3But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the ranks of the Philistines?"H1732H582H559H3373H3063H3212H7084H4634H6430 4Then David inquired of the LORD once more. And the LORD answered him and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand."H1732H7592H3068H3254H3068H6030H559H6965H3381H7084H5414H6430H3027 5So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines; and he led away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. Thus David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.H1732H582H3212H7084H3898H6430H5090H4735H5221H1419H4347H1732H3467H3427H7084 6Now it came about, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, [that] he came down [with] an ephod in his hand.H54H1121H288H1272H1732H7084H3381H646H3027 7When it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he shut himself in by entering a city with double gates and bars."H5046H7586H1732H935H7084H7586H559H430H5234H3027H5462H935H5892H1817H1280 8So Saul summoned all the people for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.H7586H8085H5971H8085H4421H3381H7084H6696H1732H582 9Now David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."H1732H3045H7586H2790H7451H559H54H3548H5066H646 10Then David said, "O LORD God of Israel, Thy servant has heard for certain that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city on my account.H559H1732H3068H430H3478H5650H8085H8085H7586H1245H935H7084H7843H5892 11"Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down just as Thy servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I pray, tell Thy servant." And the LORD said, "He will come down."H1167H7084H5462H3027H7586H3381H5650H8085H3068H430H3478H5046H5650H3068H559H3381 12Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will surrender you."H559H1732H1167H7084H5462H582H3027H7586H3068H559H5462 13Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit.H1732H582H8337H3967H376H6965H3318H7084H1980H834H1980H5046H7586H1732H4422H7084H2308H3318 14And David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.H1732H3427H4057H4679H3427H2022H4057H2128H7586H1245H3117H430H5414H3027 15Now David became aware that Saul had come out to seek his life while David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.H1732H7200H7586H3318H1245H5315H1732H4057H2128H2793 16And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God.H3083H7586H1121H6965H3212H1732H2793H2388H3027H430 17Thus he said to him, "Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul my father shall not find you, and you will be king over Israel and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also."H559H3372H3027H7586H1H4672H4427H3478H4932H7586H1H3045 18So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD; and David stayed at Horesh while Jonathan went to his house.H8147H3772H1285H6440H3068H1732H3427H2793H3083H1980H1004 19Then Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is David not hiding with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?H5927H2130H7586H1390H559H1732H5641H4679H2793H1389H2444H3225H3452 20"Now then, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to do so; and our part [shall be] to surrender him into the king's hand."H4428H3381H185H5315H3381H5462H4428H3027 21And Saul said, "May you be blessed of the LORD; for you have had compassion on me.H7586H559H1288H3068H2550 22"Go now, make more sure, and investigate and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very cunning.H3212H3559H3045H7200H4725H7272H7200H559H6191H6191 23"So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he hides himself, and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and it shall come about if he is in the land that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."H7200H3045H4224H2244H7725H3559H1980H3426H776H2664H505H3063 24Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.H6965H3212H2128H6440H7586H1732H582H4057H4584H6160H3225H3452 25When Saul and his men went to seek [him], they told David, and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [it], he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.H7586H582H3212H1245H5046H1732H3381H5553H3427H4057H4584H7586H8085H7291H310H1732H4057H4584 26And Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them.H7586H3212H6654H2022H1732H582H6654H2022H1732H2648H3212H6440H7586H7586H582H5849H1732H582H5849H8610 27But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land."H935H4397H7586H559H4116H3212H6430H6584H776 28So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went to meet the Philistines; therefore they called that place the Rock of Escape.H7586H7725H7291H310H1732H3212H7125H6430H7121H4725H5555 29And David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of Engedi.H1732H5927H3427H4679H5872


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