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I Samuel Chapter 23

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I SAMUEL

I Samuel 23

1Then they tolde Dauid, saying, Beholde, the Philistims fight against Keilah, and spoyle the barnes.
Joshua 15:44, Joshua 15:44, Nehemiah 3:17, Nehemiah 3:18, Micah 6:15
2Therfore Dauid asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shal I goe and smite these Philistims? And the Lord answered Dauid, Go and smite the Philistims, and saue Keilah.
1 Samuel 23:4, 1 Samuel 23:4, 2 Samuel 5:19, 2 Samuel 5:23, 2 Samuel 5:19
3And Dauids men said vnto him, See, we be afrayde here in Iudah, howe much more if we come to Keilah against the hoste of ye Philistims?
Jeremiah 12:5, 1 Samuel 23:15, 1 Samuel 23:23, 1 Samuel 23:26, Psalms 11:1
4Then Dauid asked counsell of the Lord againe. And the Lord answered him, and sayd, Arise, go downe to Keilah: for I wil deliuer the Philistims into thine hand.
Judges 7:7, Judges 7:7, Joshua 8:7, Joshua 8:7, Judges 6:39
5So Dauid and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistims, and brought away their cattel, and smote them with a great slaughter: thus Dauid saued the inhabitants of Keilah.
6(And when Abiathar the sonne of Ahimelech fled to Dauid to Keilah, he brought an Ephod with him)
1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 22:20, Exodus 28:30, Exodus 28:31, 1 Samuel 14:3
7And it was tolde Saul that Dauid was come to Keilah, and Saul sayd, God hath deliuered him into mine hand: for he is shut in, seeing he is come into a citie that hath gates and barres.
1 Samuel 24:4, 1 Samuel 24:6, 1 Samuel 24:4, 1 Samuel 24:6, Psalms 71:10
8Then Saul called all the people together to warre, for to go downe to Keilah, and to besiege Dauid and his men.
9And Dauid hauing knowledge that Saul imagined mischiefe against him, saide to Abiathar the Priest, Bring the Ephod.
1 Samuel 30:7, 1 Samuel 30:7, 1 Samuel 23:6, 1 Samuel 23:6, Numbers 27:21
10Then sayde Dauid, O Lord God of Israel, thy seruat hath heard, that Saul is about to come to Keilah to destroy the citie for my sake.
1 Samuel 23:8, 1 Samuel 22:19, Genesis 18:24, Esther 3:6, Proverbs 28:15
11Wil the lordes of Keilah deliuer me vp into his hand? and will Saul come downe, as thy seruant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy seruant. And the Lord sayde, He will come downe.
Psalms 50:15, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:8, Jeremiah 33:3, Psalms 50:15
12Then said Dauid, Will the lords of Keilah deliuer me vp, and the men that are with me, into the hand of Saul? And the Lord sayde, They will deliuer thee vp.
Psalms 31:8, 1 Samuel 23:20, Psalms 31:8, 1 Samuel 23:20, Psalms 62:1
13Then Dauid and his men, which were about sixe hundreth, arose, and departed out of Keilah, and went whither they coulde. And it was tolde Saul, that Dauid was fled from Keilah, and he left off his iourney.
1 Samuel 22:2, 1 Samuel 25:13, 1 Samuel 22:2, 1 Samuel 25:13, 1 Samuel 30:9
14And Dauid abode in the wildernesse in holdes, and remayned in a mountaine in the wildernes of Ziph. And Saul sought him euery day, but God deliuered him not into his hand.
Psalms 54:3, Psalms 54:4, Psalms 54:3, Psalms 54:4, Psalms 32:7
15And Dauid sawe that Saul was come out for to seeke his life: and Dauid was in the wildernes of Ziph in the wood.
16And Ionathan Sauls sonne arose and went to Dauid into the wood, and comforted him in God,
Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, Hebrews 12:12
17And said vnto him, Feare not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not finde thee, and thou shalt be King ouer Israel, and I shalbe next vnto thee: and also Saul my father knoweth it.
1 Samuel 20:31, 1 Samuel 20:31, 1 Samuel 24:20, 1 Samuel 24:20, Job 5:11
18So they twaine made a couenant before ye Lord: and Dauid did remaine in the wood: but Ionathan went to his house.
1 Samuel 18:3, 2 Samuel 21:7, 1 Samuel 20:42, 1 Samuel 18:3, 2 Samuel 21:7
19Then came vp the Ziphims to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doeth not Dauid hide himselfe by vs in holdes, in the wood in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the right side of Ieshimon?
1 Samuel 26:1, 1 Samuel 26:1, 1 Samuel 26:3, 1 Samuel 26:3, Psalms 54:1
20Nowe therefore, O King, come downe according to all that thine heart can desire, and our part shall be to deliuer him into the Kinges handes.
1 Samuel 23:12, 1 Samuel 23:12, 1 Kings 21:11, 1 Kings 21:14, 2 Kings 10:5
21Then Saul said, Be ye blessed of the Lord: for ye haue had compassion on mee.
1 Samuel 22:8, 1 Samuel 22:8, Psalms 10:3, Isaiah 66:5, Judges 17:2
22Goe, I pray you, and prepare ye yet better: know and see his place where he haunteth, and who hath seene him there: for it is sayd to me, He is subtile, and craftie.
Job 5:13, Job 5:13
23See therefore and know all the secret places where he hideth himselfe, and come ye againe to me with the certaintie, and I will goe with you: and if he be in the lande, I will searche him out throughout all the thousands of Iudah.
Mark 14:10, Mark 14:11, Mark 14:1, Micah 5:2, 1 Kings 18:10
24Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul, but Dauid and his men were in the wildernesse of Maon, in the playne on the right hande of Ieshimon.
1 Samuel 25:2, Joshua 15:55, 1 Samuel 25:2, Joshua 15:55
25Saul also and his men went to seeke him, and they told Dauid: wherefore he came downe vnto a rocke, and abode in the wildernesse of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he folowed after Dauid in the wildernes of Maon.
1 Samuel 23:28, Judges 15:8, 1 Samuel 23:28, Judges 15:8
26And Saul and his men went on the one side of the mountaine, and Dauid and his men on the other side of the mountaine: and Dauid made haste to get from the presence of Saul: for Saul and his men compassed Dauid and his men round about, to take them.
Psalms 17:9, Psalms 17:9, 2 Samuel 17:21, 2 Samuel 17:22, Revelation 20:9
27But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come: for the Philistims haue inuaded the land.
2 Kings 19:9, 2 Kings 19:9, Deuteronomy 32:36, Revelation 12:16, Genesis 22:14
28Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing Dauid, and went against the Philistims. Therefore they called that place, Sela-hammahlekoth.
29
2 Chronicles 20:2, 2 Chronicles 20:2, Joshua 15:62, Joshua 15:62, Ezekiel 47:10

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