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1 Samuel 23:7

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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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1 Samuel 23:7 in other translations

And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

1 Samuel 23:7 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 23:7 in context

  1. 5David 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.
  2. 6When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
  3. 7Saul 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.”
  4. 8Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
  5. 9David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”