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<!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 Amplified 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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><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="../">AMP</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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/1_samuel/23.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">David Rescues 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 plundering (robbing) the threshing floors [of the grain].” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack 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, “Listen, 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 inquired of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will hand over the Philistines to you.” <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 the Philistines; he drove away their cattle and struck them with a great slaughter. So David rescued the inhabitants of Keilah. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now when Saul was informed that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has handed him over to me, for he shut himself in by entering a city that has double gates and bars.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So Saul summoned all the people (soldiers) for war, 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; and 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 LORD, the God of Israel, Your servant has heard for certain that Saul intends to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Will the men of Keilah hand me over to him? Will Saul come down just as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will come down.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then David asked, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men to Saul?” The LORD 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 left Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>David stayed in the wilderness in strongholds, in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand David over to him. <p class="hdg">Saul Pursues David</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now David became aware that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the Wilderness of Ziph [in the woods] at Horesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went [into the woods] to David at Horesh, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>encouraged him in God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He said to him, “Do not be afraid; the hand of my father Saul will not find you. You will be king over Israel and I will be second in command to you; my father Saul knows this too.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD; and David stayed [in the woods] at Horesh and Jonathan went to his house. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is David not hiding with us in strongholds of Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Jeshimon? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now then, O king, come down [to Ziph] in accordance with all your heart’s desire to do so [and capture him]; and our part shall be to hand him over to the king.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Saul said, “May you be blessed by the LORD, because you have had compassion on me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Go now, be very persistent and investigate, and see where his <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>haunt is and who has seen him there; for I am told he is very cunning. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So look, and take note of all the places where he hides and come back to me with the established facts, then I will go with you. If he is [anywhere] in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah south of Jeshimon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then Saul and his men went to search for him. When David was told <i>about it</i>, he went down to the rock and stayed [there] in the Wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard it, he pursued David in the Wilderness of Maon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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, for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to capture 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, because the Philistines have attacked 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 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">[d]</a></span>David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of Engedi.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>strengthened his hand</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>the desert</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>foot.</i><br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">29</span> In Hebrew this is v 1 of the next chapter.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_samuel/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_samuel/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>