1 Samuel 23:7
And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.
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1 Samuel 23:7
And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.
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1 Samuel 23:8
And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.
1 Samuel 23:9
And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.
1 Samuel 23:10
Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.
1 Samuel 23:11
And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down.
1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.
1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.
Psalms 31:21
May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.
1 Samuel 30:7
And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Come here to me with the ephod. And Abiathar took the ephod to David.
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1 Samuel 23:1
And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.
1 Samuel 23:2
So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.
1 Samuel 23:3
And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
1 Samuel 23:4
Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.
1 Samuel 23:5
So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah.
1 Samuel 23:6
Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand.
Joshua 15:44
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places.
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1 Samuel 23:14
And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.
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Psalms 31:8
And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.
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Deuteronomy 3:5
All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.
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1 Samuel 24:4
And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.
1 Samuel 24:5
And later, David was full of regret for cutting off Saul's skirt.
1 Samuel 24:6
And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him.
1 Samuel 24:10
Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.
1 Samuel 26:9
And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?
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Job 34:19
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
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Psalms 71:11
Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.
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Exodus 14:3
And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.
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Deuteronomy 32:27
But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
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Judges 16:2
And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.
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1 Samuel 18:21
And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a cause of danger to him, and so that the hands of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David, Today you are to become my son-in-law for the second time.
Psalms 37:32
The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.
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1 Samuel 22:20
And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David;
1 Samuel 22:21
And gave him the news of how Saul had put to death the Lord's priests.
1 Kings 2:26
And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.
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1 Samuel 24:18
And you have made clear to me how good you have been to me today: because, when the Lord gave me up into your hands, you did not put me to death.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.
1 Samuel 26:23
And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.
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Proverbs 7:15
So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
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