So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.†
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 23:28 in context
1 Samuel 23:25–29
25
Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
26
Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
27
But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!”
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Selected verse
So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.†
29
David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.
Source notes
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- “Sela Hammahlekoth” means “rock of parting”.
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