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Joshua 1:9
1 Samuel 23
David Protects the Town of Keilah
1One day news came to David that the Philistines were at Keilah stealing grain from the threshing floors.
“Yes, go and save Keilah,” the Lord told him.
3But David’s men said, “We’re afraid even here in Judah. We certainly don’t want to go to Keilah to fight the whole Philistine army!”
4So David asked the Lord again, and again the Lord replied, “Go down to Keilah, for I will help you conquer the Philistines.”
5So David and his men went to Keilah. They slaughtered the Philistines and took all their livestock and rescued the people of Keilah.
7Saul soon learned that David was at Keilah. “Good!” he exclaimed. “We’ve got him now! God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself in a walled town!”
9But David learned of Saul’s plan and told Abiathar the priest to bring the ephod and ask the Lord what he should do.
And the Lord said, “He will come.”
12Again David asked, “Will the leaders of Keilah betray me and my men to Saul?”
And the Lord replied, “Yes, they will betray you.”
David Hides in the Wilderness
13So David and his men—about 600 of them now—left Keilah and began roaming the countryside. Word soon reached Saul that David had escaped, so he didn’t go to Keilah after all.
15One day near Horesh, David received the news that Saul was on the way to Ziph to search for him and kill him.
19But now the men of Ziph went to Saul in Gibeah and betrayed David to him. “We know where David is hiding,” they said. “He is in the strongholds of Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is in the southern part of Jeshimon.
21“The Lord bless you,” Saul said. “At last someone is concerned about me!
Meanwhile, David and his men had moved into the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah Valley south of Jeshimon.
26Saul and David were now on opposite sides of a mountain. Just as Saul and his men began to close in on David and his men,
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