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1 David was asked, |Did you know that the Philistines are fighting against Keilah? They are robbing the threshing floors.| 2 David asked the LORD, |Should I go and attack these Philistines?| |Go,| the LORD told David, |attack the Philistines, and save Keilah.| 3 David's men told him, |We're afraid of staying here in Judah. How much more [afraid do you think we'll be] if we go to Keilah against the Philistine army?| 4 David asked the LORD again, and the LORD answered him. He said, |Go to Keilah. I'm giving you the power to defeat the Philistines.| 5 David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines, drove off their livestock, and decisively defeated them. So David rescued the people who lived in Keilah. 6 When Ahimelech's son Abiathar fled to David at Keilah, Abiathar brought a priestly ephod with him. 7 When Saul was told that David went to Keilah, Saul said, |God has delivered him into my hands. He has trapped himself by going into a city which has [a gate with] a double door [held shut by] a bar.| 8 So Saul called together all the troops to go to war and blockade Keilah, where David and his men were. 1 Samuel 23:1-8, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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