09:022:021 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had
slain the LORD’s
priests.
09:022:022 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it
that day, when Doeg
the
Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul:
I have
occasioned
the death of all the persons of thy father’s
house.
09:022:023 Abide thou with me, fear not: for
he that seeketh my life
seeketh
thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
09:023:001 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the
Philistines fight
against
Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
09:023:002 Therefore David enquired of the lord,
saying, Shall I go and
smite
these Philistines? And the lord said unto
David, Go, and
smite
the Philistines, and save Keilah.
09:023:003 And David’s men said unto him, Behold,
we be afraid here in
Judah:
how much more then if we come to Keilah against the
armies
of the Philistines?
09:023:004 Then David enquired of the lord yet
again. And the lord
answered
him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will
deliver
the Philistines into thine hand.
09:023:005 So David and his men went to Keilah, and
fought with the
Philistines,
and brought away their cattle, and smote them
with
a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants
of
Keilah.
09:023:006 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the
son of Ahimelech fled
to
David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in
his
hand.
09:023:007 And it was told Saul that David was come
to Keilah. And Saul
said,
God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut
in,
by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
09:023:008 And Saul called all the people together
to war, to go down to
Keilah,
to besiege David and his men.
09:023:009 And David knew that Saul secretly practised
mischief against
him;
and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the
ephod.
09:023:010 Then said David, O lord God of Israel,
thy servant hath
certainly
heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to
destroy
the city for my sake.
09:023:011 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into
his hand? will Saul
come
down, as thy servant hath heard? O lord God
of Israel, I
beseech
thee, tell thy servant. And the lord said,
He will
come
down.
09:023:012 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah
deliver me and my men
into
the hand of Saul? And the lord said, They
will deliver
thee
up.
09:023:013 Then David and his men, which were about
six hundred, arose
and
departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they
could
go.
And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah;
and
he forbare to go forth.


