1 Samuel 23 Legacy Standard Bible

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 23 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > 1 Samuel 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/22.htm" title="1 Samuel 22">◄</a> 1 Samuel 23 <a href="../1_samuel/24.htm" title="1 Samuel 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/1_samuel/23.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">David Saves Keilah</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are pillaging the threshing floors.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So David asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” And Yahweh said to David, “Go and strike the Philistines and save Keilah.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the battle lines of the Philistines?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then David asked of Yahweh once more. And Yahweh answered him and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines; and he led away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. Thus David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now it happened when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, <i>that</i> he came down <i>with</i> an ephod in his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then it was told to Saul that David had come to Keilah, so Saul said, “God has <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>delivered him into my hand, for he shut himself in by entering a city with double gates and bars.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Saul summoned all the people for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your slave has heard for certain that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to make the city a ruin on my account. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down just as Your slave has heard? O Yahweh, the God of Israel, I pray, tell Your slave.” And Yahweh said, “He will come down.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And Yahweh said, “They will surrender you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. Now it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, so he ceased going out <i>in pursuit</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand. <p class="hdg">Saul Pursues David</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. Now David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David at Horesh and strengthened his hand in God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he said to him, “Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul my father will not find you, and you will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you; and Saul my father knows that also.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So the two of them cut a covenant before Yahweh; and David stayed at Horesh while Jonathan went to his house. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is David not hiding with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>south of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Jeshimon? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So now, O king, according to all the desire of your soul to come down, come down <i>here</i>; and our part <i>shall be</i> to surrender him into the king’s hand.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Saul said, “May you be blessed of Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Go now, make more sure, and know and see his place—where his <i>very</i> foot is—<i>and</i> who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very crafty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So see and know about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>south of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Jeshimon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So Saul and his men went to seek <i>him</i>, and they told David, and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And Saul heard <i>it</i> and pursued David in the wilderness of Maon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, but Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines; therefore they called that place <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the Rock of Escape. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of Engedi.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>alienated</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>right side</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>the desert</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>right side</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Or <i>the desert</i><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Heb <i>Sela-hammahlekoth</i><br><span class="fnverse">29</span> Ch 24:1 in Heb<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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