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1
Then they told
David,
saying,
"Behold,
the Philistines
are fighting
against Keilah
and are plundering
the threshing floors."
2
So 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."
3
But 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?"
4
Then 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."
5
So 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.
6
Now it came
about, when Abiathar
the son
of Ahimelech
fled
to David
at Keilah,
that he came down
with an ephod
in his hand.
7
When 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."
8
So Saul
summoned
all
the people
for war,
to go down
to Keilah
to besiege
David
and his men.
9
Now David
knew
that Saul
was plotting
evil
against
him; so he said
to Abiathar
the priest,
"Bring
the ephod
here."
10
Then David
said,
"O LORD
God
of Israel,
Your servant
has heard
for certain
that Saul
is seeking
to come
to Keilah
to destroy
the city
on my account.
11
"Will the men
of Keilah
surrender
me into his hand?
Will Saul
come
down
just
as Your servant
has heard?
O LORD
God
of Israel,
I pray,
tell
Your servant."
And the LORD
said,
"He will
come
down
."
12
Then 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."
13
Then 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.
14
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.
15
Now David
became aware
that Saul
had come
out to seek
his life
while David
was in the wilderness
of Ziph
at Horesh.
16
And Jonathan,
Saul's
son,
arose
and went
to David
at Horesh,
and encouraged
him in God.
17
Thus he said
to him, "Do not be afraid,
because
the hand
of Saul
my father
will not find
you, and you will be king
over
Israel
and I will be next
to you; and Saul
my father
knows
that also."
18
So the two
of them made
a covenant
before
the LORD;
and David
stayed
at Horesh
while Jonathan
went
to his house.
19
Then 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?
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."
21
Saul
said,
"May you be blessed
of the LORD,
for you have had compassion
on me.
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.
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 if
he is in the land,
I will search
him out among
all
the thousands
of Judah."
24
Then 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.
25
When 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.
26
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.
27
But a messenger
came
to Saul,
saying,
"Hurry
and come,
for the Philistines
have made a raid
on the land."
28
So Saul
returned
from pursuing
David
and went
to meet
the Philistines;
therefore
they called
that place
the Rock
of Escape.
29
David
went
up from there
and stayed
in the strongholds
of Engedi.
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