1David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

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Joshua 15:44, Joshua 15:44, Nehemiah 3:17, Nehemiah 3:18, Micah 6:15

2Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" The Lord said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah."

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1 Samuel 23:4, 1 Samuel 23:4, 2 Samuel 5:19, 2 Samuel 5:23, 2 Samuel 5:19

3David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"

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Jeremiah 12:5, 1 Samuel 23:15, 1 Samuel 23:23, 1 Samuel 23:26, Psalms 11:1

4Then David inquired of the Lord yet again. The Lord answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand."

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Judges 7:7, Judges 7:7, Joshua 8:7, Joshua 8:7, Judges 6:39

5David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

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6It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

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1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 22:20, Exodus 28:30, Exodus 28:31, 1 Samuel 14:3

7It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars."

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1 Samuel 24:4, 1 Samuel 24:6, 1 Samuel 24:4, 1 Samuel 24:6, Psalms 71:10

8Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

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9David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."

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1 Samuel 30:7, 1 Samuel 30:7, 1 Samuel 23:6, 1 Samuel 23:6, Numbers 27:21

10Then David said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

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1 Samuel 23:8, 1 Samuel 22:19, Genesis 18:24, Esther 3:6, Proverbs 28:15

11Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Lord, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant." The Lord said, "He will come down."

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Psalms 50:15, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:8, Jeremiah 33:3, Psalms 50:15

12Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" The Lord said, "They will deliver you up."

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Psalms 31:8, 1 Samuel 23:20, Psalms 31:8, 1 Samuel 23:20, Psalms 62:1

13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

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1 Samuel 22:2, 1 Samuel 25:13, 1 Samuel 22:2, 1 Samuel 25:13, 1 Samuel 30:9

14David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

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Psalms 54:3, Psalms 54:4, Psalms 54:3, Psalms 54:4, Psalms 32:7

15David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

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16Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

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Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, Hebrews 12:12

17He said to him, "Do not be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows."

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1 Samuel 20:31, 1 Samuel 20:31, 1 Samuel 24:20, 1 Samuel 24:20, Job 5:11

18They both made a covenant before the Lord: and David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

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1 Samuel 18:3, 2 Samuel 21:7, 1 Samuel 20:42, 1 Samuel 18:3, 2 Samuel 21:7

19Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

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1 Samuel 26:1, 1 Samuel 26:1, 1 Samuel 26:3, 1 Samuel 26:3, Psalms 54:1

20Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand."

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1 Samuel 23:12, 1 Samuel 23:12, 1 Kings 21:11, 1 Kings 21:14, 2 Kings 10:5

21Saul said, "You are blessed by the Lord; for you have had compassion on me.

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1 Samuel 22:8, 1 Samuel 22:8, Psalms 10:3, Isaiah 66:5, Judges 17:2

22Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly.

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Job 5:13, Job 5:13

23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

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Mark 14:10, Mark 14:11, Mark 14:1, Micah 5:2, 1 Kings 18:10

24They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

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1 Samuel 25:2, Joshua 15:55, 1 Samuel 25:2, Joshua 15:55

25Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

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1 Samuel 23:28, Judges 15:8, 1 Samuel 23:28, Judges 15:8

26Saul 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 surrounded David and his men to take them.

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Psalms 17:9, Psalms 17:9, 2 Samuel 17:21, 2 Samuel 17:22, Revelation 20:9

27But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!"

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2 Kings 19:9, 2 Kings 19:9, Deuteronomy 32:36, Revelation 12:16, Genesis 22:14

28So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.

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29David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

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2 Chronicles 20:2, 2 Chronicles 20:2, Joshua 15:62, Joshua 15:62, Ezekiel 47:10