1Samuel:23:7-29

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ylt @1Samuel:23:7 @And it is declared to Saul that David hath come in to Keilah , and Saul saith , 'God hath made him known for my hand , for he hath been shut in , to enter into a city of doors and bar .' ylt @1Samuel:23:8 @And Saul summoneth the whole of the people to battle , to go down to Keilah , to lay siege unto David and unto his men . ylt @1Samuel:23:9 @And David knoweth that against him Saul is devising the evil , and saith unto Abiathar the priest , 'Bring nigh the ephod .' ylt @1Samuel:23:10 @And David saith , 'Jehovah , God of Israel , Thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul is seeking to come in unto Keilah , to destroy the city on mine account . ylt @1Samuel:23:11 @Do the possessors of Keilah shut me up into his hand ? doth Saul come down as Thy servant hath heard ? Jehovah , God of Israel , declare , I pray Thee , to Thy servant .' And Jehovah saith , 'He doth come down .' ylt @1Samuel:23:12 @And David saith , 'Do the possessors of Keilah shut me up , and my men , into the hand of Saul ?' And Jehovah saith , 'They shut [thee ] up .' ylt @1Samuel:23:13 @And David riseth -- and his men -- about six hundred men , and they go out from Keilah , and go up and down where they go up and down ; and to Saul it hath been declared that David hath escaped from Keilah , and he ceaseth to go out . ylt @1Samuel:23:14 @And David abideth in the wilderness , in fortresses , and abideth in the hill-country , in the wilderness of Ziph ; and Saul seeketh him all the days , and God hath not given him into his hand . ylt @1Samuel:23:15 @And David seeth that Saul hath come out to seek his life , and David [is ] in the wilderness of Ziph , in a forest . ylt @1Samuel:23:16 @And Jonathan son of Saul riseth , and goeth unto David to the forest , and strengtheneth his hand in God , ylt @1Samuel:23:17 @and saith unto him , 'Fear not , for the hand of Saul my father doth not find thee , and thou dost reign over Israel , and I am to thee for second , and also so knoweth Saul my father .' ylt @1Samuel:23:18 @And they make a covenant both of them before Jehovah ; and David abideth in the forest , and Jonathan hath gone to his house . ylt @1Samuel:23:19 @And the Ziphites go up unto Saul to Gibeah , saying , 'Is not David hiding himself with us in fortresses , in the forest , in the height of Hachilah , which [is ] on the south of the desolate place ? ylt @1Samuel:23:20 @And , now , by all the desire of thy soul , O king , to come down , come down , and ours [is ] to shut him up into the hand of the king .' ylt @1Samuel:23:21 @And Saul saith , 'Blessed [are ] ye of Jehovah , for ye have pity on me ; ylt @1Samuel:23:22 @go , I pray you , prepare yet , and know and see his place where his foot is ; who hath seen him there ? for [one ] hath said unto me , He is very subtile . ylt @1Samuel:23:23 @And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself , and ye have turned back unto me prepared , and I have gone with you , and it hath been , if he is in the land , that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah .' ylt @1Samuel:23:24 @And they rise and go to Ziph before Saul , and David and his men [are ] in the wilderness of Maon , in the plain , at the south of the desolate place . ylt @1Samuel:23:25 @And Saul and his men go to seek , and they declare to David , and he goeth down the rock , and abideth in the wilderness of Maon ; and Saul heareth , and pursueth after David [to ] the wilderness of Maon . ylt @1Samuel:23:26 @And Saul goeth on this side of the mountain , and David and his men on that side of the mountain , and David is hastened to go from the face of Saul , and Saul and his men are compassing David and his men , to catch them . ylt @1Samuel:23:27 @And a messenger hath come in unto Saul , saying , 'Haste , and come , for the Philistines have pushed against the land .' ylt @1Samuel:23:28 @And Saul turneth back from pursuing after David , and goeth to meet the Philistines , therefore they have called that place 'The Rock of Divisions .' ylt @1Samuel:23:29 @And David goeth up thence , and abideth in fortresses [at ] En-gedi .

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