1Then they told David [beloved], saying, Behold, the P’lishtim [Immigrants] fight against Ke’ilah [Fortress], and they rob the threshing floors. 2Therefore David [beloved] enquired of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, Shall I go and strike these P’lishtim [Immigrants]? And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto David [beloved], Go, and strike the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and save Ke’ilah [Fortress]. 3And David’s [beloved]’s men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: how much more then if we come to Ke’ilah [Fortress] against the armies of the P’lishtim [Immigrants]? 4Then David [beloved] enquired of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) yet again. And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) answered him and said, Arise, go down to Ke’ilah [Fortress]; for I will deliver the P’lishtim [Immigrants] into youⁱ hand. 5So David [beloved] and his men went to Ke’ilah [Fortress], and fought with the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and brought away their cattle, and struck them with a great slaughter. So David [beloved] saved the inhabitants of Ke’ilah [Fortress].

6And it came to pass, when Avyatar [my father is great] the son of Achi-Melekh [my brother is king] fled to David [beloved] to Ke’ilah [Fortress], [that] he came down [with] an ephod (vest) in his hand. 7And it was told Sha’ul [desired] that David [beloved] was come to Ke’ilah [Fortress]. And Sha’ul [desired] said, God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars. 8And Sha’ul [desired] called all the people together to war, to go down to Ke’ilah [Fortress], to besiege David [beloved] and his men. 9And David [beloved] knew that Sha’ul [desired] secretly practiced mischief against him; and he said to Avyatar [my father is great] the priest, Bring here the ephod (vest). 10Then said David [beloved], O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], youⁱ servant has certainly heard that Sha’ul [desired] seeks to come to Ke’ilah [Fortress], to destroy the city for my sake. 11Will the men of Ke’ilah [Fortress] deliver me up into his hand? will Sha’ul [desired] come down, as yourⁱ servant has heard? O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youⁱ, tell yourⁱ servant. And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, He will come down. 12Then said David [beloved], Will the men of Ke’ilah [Fortress] deliver me and my men into the hand of Sha’ul [desired]? And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, They will deliver [youⁱ] up. 13Then David [beloved] and his men, [which were] about six hundred, arose and departed out of Ke’ilah [Fortress], and went to wherever they could go. And it was told Sha’ul [desired] that David [beloved] was escaped from Ke’ilah [Fortress]; and he forbare to go forth. 14And David [beloved] abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziv [brightness] [Battlement (low wall around a roof; wall for defense)]. And Sha’ul [desired] sought him every day, but God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] delivered him not into his hand.

15And David [beloved] saw that Sha’ul [desired] was come out to seek his life: and David [beloved] [was] in the wilderness of Ziv [brightness] [Battlement (low wall around a roof; wall for defense)] in a wood. 16And Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] Sha’ul’s [desired] son arose, and went to David [beloved] into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]. 17And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Sha’ul [desired] my father shall not find youⁱ; and youⁱ shall be king over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and I shall be next unto youⁱ; and that also Sha’ul [desired] my father knows. 18And they two made a covenant before the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and David [beloved] abode in the wood, and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] went to his house.

19Then came up the Zifim [smelters] to Sha’ul [desired] to Giv’ah [Hill], saying, Does not David [beloved] hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hikhilah [dark], which [is] on the south of Y’shim’on [Wasteland]? 20Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of youⁱ soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king's hand. 21And Sha’ul [desired] said, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] you^2f of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); for you^2f have compassion on me. 22Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt (where one goes freequently) is, [and] who has seen him there: for it is told me [that] he deals very subtly. 23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come you^2f again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

24And they arose, and went to Ziv [brightness] [Battlement (low wall around a roof; wall for defense)] before Sha’ul [desired]: but David [beloved] and his men [were] in the wilderness of Ma’on [Habitation], in the plain on the south of Y’shim’on [Wasteland]. 25Sha’ul [desired] also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David [beloved]: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Ma’on [Habitation]. And when Sha’ul [desired] heard [that], he pursued after David [beloved] in the wilderness of Ma’on [Habitation]. 26And Sha’ul [desired] went on this side of the mountain, and David [beloved] and his men on that side of the mountain: and David [beloved] made haste to get away for fear of Sha’ul [desired]; for Sha’ul [desired] and his men compassed David [beloved] and his men round about to take them. 27But there came a messenger unto Sha’ul [desired], saying, Haste youⁱ, and come; for the P’lishtim [Immigrants] have invaded the land. 28For what reason Sha’ul [desired] returned from pursuing after David [beloved], and went against the P’lishtim [Immigrants]: therefore they called that place Sela [the rocks]-Hamachlekot [the cliff of escapes, or divisions]. 29And David [beloved] went up from there, and dwelt in strong holds at ‘Ein-Gedi [Fount of the Kid].