Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. Jos 15:44Mic 6:15Neh 3:17-18Deu 28:33Deu 28:51Jdg 6:4Lev 26:16Jdg 6:11 Therefore David enquired 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 23:42Sa 5:192Sa 5:231Sa 23:61Sa 23:9-121Sa 30:8Jer 10:23Jos 9:14 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 23:151Sa 23:231Sa 23:26Jer 12:5Psa 11:1 Then David enquired 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. Jdg 7:7Jos 8:71Sa 28:62Ki 3:182Sa 5:19Jdg 6:39 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. 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 22:201Sa 14:181Sa 14:31Sa 14:36-37Exo 28:30-31
¶ 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 24:4-61Sa 23:141Sa 26:8-9Job 20:5Psa 71:10-11Exo 14:3Exo 15:9Jdg 16:2-3 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
¶ And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. 1Sa 30:71Sa 23:6Num 27:211Sa 14:181Sa 22:20Act 9:24Jer 11:18-19Jer 33:3 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 22:191Sa 23:8Est 3:6Gen 18:24Pro 28:15Rom 3:15-16 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. Jer 33:3Mat 7:7-8Psa 50:15 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. 1 1Sa 23:20Psa 31:8Psa 62:11Sa 23:7Ecc 9:14-15Heb 4:13Isa 29:15Psa 118:8
¶ 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 22:21Sa 25:131Sa 30:9-102Sa 15:20
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. Psa 54:3-4Psa 32:7Jos 15:24Jos 15:552Ti 3:11Rom 8:311Sa 23:71Sa 27:1 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
¶ And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. Isa 35:3-4Heb 12:12-13Job 4:3-42Ti 2:1Eph 6:10Luk 22:321Sa 30:6Luk 22:43 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 20:311Sa 24:20Act 28:16Heb 13:6Isa 54:17Job 5:11-15Act 5:39Isa 41:10 And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house. 1Sa 18:31Sa 20:422Sa 21:72Sa 9:11Sa 20:12-17
¶ 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? 2 3 1Sa 26:11Sa 26:3Psa 54:1-71Sa 22:7-8Pro 29:12 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 23:121Ki 21:11-142Ki 10:5-72Sa 3:21Deu 18:6Pro 11:23Pro 29:26Psa 112:10 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me. 1Sa 22:8Isa 66:5Jdg 17:2Mic 3:11Psa 10:3 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 subtilly. 4 Job 5:13 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. 1Ki 18:102Sa 17:11-13Jhn 18:2-3Mic 5:2Mrk 14:1Mrk 14:10-11Num 10:36Pro 1:16 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 25:2Jos 15:55 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. 5 1Sa 23:28Jdg 15:8 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. Psa 17:91Sa 19:121Sa 20:382Ch 20:122Co 1:82Sa 15:142Sa 17:21-22Psa 118:11-13
¶ But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land. 6 2Ki 19:9Psa 116:31Ch 14:13Deu 32:36Gen 22:14Rev 12:16 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth. 7
¶ And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi. 2Ch 20:2Jos 15:62Ezk 47:10Sng 1:141Sa 24:1Gen 14:7