1 Samuel 23:1-6

David Saves the City of Keilah

1 Now they told David, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against e Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors." 2 Therefore David f inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the Lord said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save 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 armies of the Philistines?" 4 Then David f inquired of the Lord again. And the Lord answered him, "Arise, go down to Keilah, g for I will give the Philistines into your hand." 5 And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

6 h When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 15:44
    Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.
  2. Cross References
    1 Samuel 22:10
    And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
  3. Cross References
    1 Samuel 23:2
    Therefore David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the Lord said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.
  4. Cross References
    1 Samuel 23:14
    And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
    Joshua 24:11
    And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.
    Judges 7:7
    And the Lord said to Gideon, "With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.
    Judges 20:28
    And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?" And the Lord said, "Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.
  5. Cross References
    1 Samuel 22:20
    But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
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