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And Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah .
So Saul said , "
God has delivered him into my hand ,
for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars ."
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Then Saul called all the people together for war ,
to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men .
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When David knew that Saul plotted evil against him ,
he said to Abiathar the priest , "
Bring the ephod here ."
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Then David said , "
O LORD God of Israel ,
Your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake .
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Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand ?
Will Saul come down ,
as Your servant has heard ?
O LORD God of Israel ,
I pray ,
tell Your servant ."
And the LORD said , "
He will come down ."
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Then David said , "
Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul ?"
And the LORD said , "
They will deliver you ."
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So David and his men ,
about six hundred ,
arose and departed from Keilah and went wherever they could go .
Then it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah ;
so he halted the expedition .
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And David stayed in strongholds in the wilderness ,
and remained in the mountains in the Wilderness of Ziph .
Saul sought him every day ,
but God did not deliver him into his hand .
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So David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life .
And David was in the Wilderness of Ziph in a forest .
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Then Jonathan ,
Saul '
s son ,
arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened his hand in God .
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And he said to him , "
Do not fear ,
for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you .
You shall be king over Israel ,
and I shall be next to you .
Even my father Saul knows that ."
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So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD .
And David stayed in the woods ,
and Jonathan went to his own house .
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Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah ,
saying , "
Is David not hiding with us in strongholds in the woods ,
in the hill of Hachilah ,
which is on the south of Jeshimon ?
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Now therefore ,
O king ,
come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down ;
and our part shall be to deliver him into the king '
s hand ."
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And Saul said , "
Blessed are you of the LORD ,
for you have compassion on me .
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Please go and find out for sure ,
and see the place where his hideout is ,
and who has seen him there .
For I am told he is very crafty .
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See therefore ,
and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides ;
and come back to me with certainty ,
and I will go with you .
And it shall be ,
if he is in the land ,
that I will search for him throughout all the clans of Judah ."
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So they arose and went to Ziph before Saul .
But David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon ,
in the plain on the south of Jeshimon .
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When Saul and his men went to seek him ,
they told David .
Therefore he went down to the rock ,
and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon .
And when Saul heard that ,
he pursued David in the Wilderness of Maon .
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Then Saul went on one side of the mountain ,
and David and his men on the other side of the mountain .
So David made haste to get away from Saul ,
for Saul and his men were encircling David and his men to take them .
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But a messenger came to Saul ,
saying , "
Hurry and come ,
for the Philistines have invaded the land !"
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Therefore Saul returned from pursuing David ,
and went against the Philistines ;
so they called that place the Rock of Escape .
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Then David went up from there and dwelt in strongholds at En Gedi .