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    1Samuel 23

    1 They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.WEB — 1Samuel 23:1

    2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and strike these Philistines? Yahweh said to David, Go, and strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.WEB — 1Samuel 23:2

    3 David'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?WEB — 1Samuel 23:3

    4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.WEB — 1Samuel 23:4

    5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David save the inhabitants of Keilah.WEB — 1Samuel 23:5

    6 It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.WEB — 1Samuel 23:6

    7 It was told Saul that David was 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.WEB — 1Samuel 23:7

    8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.WEB — 1Samuel 23:8

    9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.WEB — 1Samuel 23:9

    10 Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.WEB — 1Samuel 23:10

    11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.WEB — 1Samuel 23:11

    12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will deliver you up.WEB — 1Samuel 23:12

    13 Then 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.WEB — 1Samuel 23:13

    14 David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.WEB — 1Samuel 23:14

    15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.WEB — 1Samuel 23:15

    16 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.WEB — 1Samuel 23:16

    17 He said to him, Don't 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.WEB — 1Samuel 23:17

    18 They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.WEB — 1Samuel 23:18

    19 Then came up the Ziphites 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?WEB — 1Samuel 23:19

    20 Now 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.WEB — 1Samuel 23:20

    21 Saul said, Blessed be you of Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.WEB — 1Samuel 23:21

    22 Plesease 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.WEB — 1Samuel 23:22

    23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.WEB — 1Samuel 23:23

    24 They 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.WEB — 1Samuel 23:24

    25 Saul and his men went to seek him. They told David: why he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.WEB — 1Samuel 23:25

    26 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.WEB — 1Samuel 23:26

    27 But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste you, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land.WEB — 1Samuel 23:27

    28 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.WEB — 1Samuel 23:28

    29 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.WEB — 1Samuel 23:29

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