1 Samuel 23 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

David Delivers Keilah

1Sa 23:1They told David, saying, Behold, the Pelishtim are fighting against Ke`ilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.

1Sa 23:2

1Sa 23:2Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and strike these Pelishtim? the LORD said to David, Go, and strike the Pelishtim, and save Ke`ilah.

1Sa 23:3

1Sa 23:3David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Yehudah: how much more then if we go to Ke`ilah against the armies of the Pelishtim?

1Sa 23:4

1Sa 23:4Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. The LORD answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Ke`ilah; for I will deliver the Pelishtim into your hand.

1Sa 23:5

1Sa 23:5David and his men went to Ke`ilah, and fought with the Pelishtim, and brought away their cattle, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David save the inhabitants of Ke`ilah.

1Sa 23:6

1Sa 23:6It happened, when Avyatar the son of Achimelekh fled to David to Ke`ilah, that he came down with an efod in his hand.

1Sa 23:7

1Sa 23:7It was told Sha'ul that David was come to Ke`ilah. Sha'ul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.

1Sa 23:8

1Sa 23:8Sha'ul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Ke`ilah, to besiege David and his men.

1Sa 23:9

1Sa 23:9David knew that Sha'ul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Avyatar the Kohen, Bring here the efod.

1Sa 23:10

1Sa 23:10Then said David, O LORD, the God of Yisra'el, your servant has surely heard that Sha'ul seeks to come to Ke`ilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

1Sa 23:11

1Sa 23:11Will the men of Ke`ilah deliver me up into his hand? will Sha'ul come down, as your servant has heard? LORD, the God of Yisra'el, I beg you, tell your servant. The LORD said, He will come down.

1Sa 23:12

1Sa 23:12Then said David, Will the men of Ke`ilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Sha'ul? the LORD said, They will deliver you up.

1Sa 23:13

1Sa 23:13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Ke`ilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Sha'ul that David was escaped from Ke`ilah; and he gave up going there.

1Sa 23:14

1Sa 23:14David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Zif. Sha'ul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.

Saul Pursues David

1Sa 23:15

1Sa 23:15David saw that Sha'ul had come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Zif in the wood.

1Sa 23:16

1Sa 23:16Yonatan, Sha'ul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

1Sa 23:17

1Sa 23:17He said to him, Don't be afraid; for the hand of Sha'ul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Yisra'el, and I shall be next to you; and that also Sha'ul my father knows.

1Sa 23:18

1Sa 23:18They two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Yonatan went to his house.

1Sa 23:19

1Sa 23:19Then came up the Zifim to Sha'ul to Gevah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hakhilah, which is on the south of the desert?

1Sa 23:20

1Sa 23:20Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.

1Sa 23:21

1Sa 23:21Sha'ul said, Blessed be you of the LORD; for you have had compassion on me.

1Sa 23:22

1Sa 23:22Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly.

1Sa 23:23

1Sa 23:23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Yehudah.

1Sa 23:24

1Sa 23:24They arose, and went to Zif before Sha'ul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Ma`on, in the `Aravah on the south of the desert.

1Sa 23:25

1Sa 23:25Sha'ul and his men went to seek him. They told David: why he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Ma`on. When Sha'ul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Ma`on.

1Sa 23:26

1Sa 23:26Sha'ul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Sha'ul; for Sha'ul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

1Sa 23:27

1Sa 23:27But there came a messenger to Sha'ul, saying, Haste you, and come; for the Pelishtim have made a raid on the land.

1Sa 23:28

1Sa 23:28So Sha'ul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Pelishtim: therefore they called that place Sela-Hammachlekot.

1Sa 23:29

1Sa 23:29David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of `En-Gedi.

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1 Samuel 23 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

David Delivers Keilah

Saul Pursues David

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