1 Samuel 23 (NET)

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1 Samuel 23:1¹They told David, “The Philistines are fighting in Keilah and are looting the threshing floors.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 15:44 Mic 6:15 Neh 3:17-18 Deut 28:33 Deut 28:51 Judg 6:4 Lev 26:16 Judg 6:11

1 Samuel 23:2²So David asked the Lord, “Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The Lord said to David, “Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:4 2 Sam 5:19 2 Sam 5:23 1 Sam 23:6 1 Sam 23:9-12 1 Sam 30:8 Jer 10:23 Josh 9:14 1 Chr 14:10 Judg 1:1

1 Samuel 23:3³But David’s men said to him, “We are afraid while we are still here in Judah. What will it be like if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:15 1 Sam 23:23 1 Sam 23:26 Jer 12:5 Ps 11:1

1 Samuel 23:4⁴So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 7:7 Josh 8:7 1 Sam 28:6 2 Kgs 3:18 2 Sam 5:19 Judg 6:39

1 Samuel 23:5⁵So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Samuel 23:6⁶Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 22:20 1 Sam 14:18 1 Sam 14:3 1 Sam 14:36-37 Exod 28:30-31

1 Samuel 23:7⁷When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 24:4-6 1 Sam 23:14 1 Sam 26:8-9 Job 20:5 Ps 71:10-11 Exod 14:3 Exod 15:9 Judg 16:2-3 Luke 19:43-44

1 Samuel 23:8⁸So Saul mustered all his army to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Samuel 23:9⁹When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, he told Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 30:7 1 Sam 23:6 Num 27:21 1 Sam 14:18 1 Sam 22:20 Acts 14:6 Acts 23:16-18 Acts 9:24 Jer 11:18-19 Jer 33:3

1 Samuel 23:10¹⁰Then David said, “O Lord God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is planning to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 22:19 1 Sam 23:8 Esth 3:6 Gen 18:24 Prov 28:15 Rom 3:15-16

1 Samuel 23:11¹¹Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, please inform your servant.” Then the Lord said, “He will come down.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 33:3 Matt 7:7-8 Ps 50:15

1 Samuel 23:12¹²David asked, “Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me and my men into Saul’s hand?” The Lord said, “They will deliver you over.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:20 Ps 31:8 Ps 62:1 1 Sam 23:7 Eccl 9:14-15 Heb 4:13 Isa 29:15 Ps 118:8

1 Samuel 23:13¹³So David and his men, who numbered about 600, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 22:2 1 Sam 25:13 1 Sam 30:9-10 2 Sam 15:20

1 Samuel 23:14¹⁴David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, but God did not deliver David into his hands.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 54:3-4 Ps 32:7 Josh 15:24 Josh 15:55 2 Tim 3:11 Rom 8:31 1 Sam 23:7 1 Sam 27:1 2 Tim 4:17-18 Jer 36:26

1 Samuel 23:15¹⁵David realized that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the wilderness of Ziph.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Samuel 23:16¹⁶Then Jonathan son of Saul left and went to David at Horesh. He encouraged him through God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 35:3-4 Heb 12:12-13 Job 4:3-4 2 Tim 2:1 Eph 6:10 Luke 22:32 1 Sam 30:6 Luke 22:43 Neh 2:18 Prov 27:9

1 Samuel 23:17¹⁷He said to him, “Don’t be afraid! For the hand of my father Saul cannot find you. You will rule over Israel, and I will be your second in command. Even my father Saul realizes this.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 20:31 1 Sam 24:20 Acts 28:16 Heb 13:6 Isa 54:17 Job 5:11-15 Acts 5:39 Isa 41:10 Isa 41:14 Luke 12:32

1 Samuel 23:18¹⁸When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 18:3 1 Sam 20:42 2 Sam 21:7 2 Sam 9:1 1 Sam 20:12-17

1 Samuel 23:19¹⁹Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 26:1 1 Sam 26:3 Ps 54:1-7 1 Sam 22:7-8 Prov 29:12

1 Samuel 23:20²⁰Now at your own discretion, O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:12 1 Kgs 21:11-14 2 Kgs 10:5-7 2 Sam 3:21 Deut 18:6 Prov 11:23 Prov 29:26 Ps 112:10 Ps 54:3

1 Samuel 23:21²¹Saul replied, “May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 22:8 Isa 66:5 Judg 17:2 Mic 3:11 Ps 10:3

1 Samuel 23:22²²Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely where he is and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 5:13

1 Samuel 23:23²³Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him among all the thousands of Judah.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:10 2 Sam 17:11-13 John 18:2-3 Mark 14:1 Mark 14:10-11 Mic 5:2 Num 10:36 Prov 1:16 Rom 3:15-16

1 Samuel 23:24²⁴So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the rift valley to the south of Jeshimon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:2 Josh 15:55

1 Samuel 23:25²⁵Saul and his men went to look for him. But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:28 Judg 15:8

1 Samuel 23:26²⁶Saul went on one side of the mountain, while David and his men went on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, but Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to capture them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 17:9 1 Sam 19:12 1 Sam 20:38 2 Chr 20:12 2 Cor 1:8 2 Sam 15:14 2 Sam 17:21-22 Ps 118:11-13 Ps 140:1-9 Ps 17:11

1 Samuel 23:27²⁷But a messenger came to Saul saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:9 Ps 116:3 1 Chr 14:13 Deut 32:36 Gen 22:14 Rev 12:16

1 Samuel 23:28²⁸So Saul stopped pursuing David and went to confront the Philistines. Therefore that place is called Sela Hammahlekoth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Samuel 23:29²⁹(24:1) Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:2 Josh 15:62 Ezek 47:10 Song 1:14 1 Sam 24:1 Gen 14:7