Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. The LORD answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 23:4 in context
1 Samuel 23:1–7
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David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
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Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?”
The LORD said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”
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David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
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Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. The LORD answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
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David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
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When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
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Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”
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