WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.100 Chapter 23 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight 00:06.100 --> 00:09.100 against Keilah, and they rob the threshing floors. 00:09.380 --> 00:12.780 Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these 00:12.780 --> 00:13.260 Philistines? 00:13.540 --> 00:18.000 And the Lord said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save 00:18.000 --> 00:18.480 Keilah. 00:19.060 --> 00:23.220 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah. 00:23.620 --> 00:27.440 How much more, then, if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? 00:27.440 --> 00:31.840 Then David inquired of the Lord yet again, and the Lord answered him, and said, 00:32.380 --> 00:37.300 Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand. 00:37.560 --> 00:41.220 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, 00:41.440 --> 00:44.280 and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. 00:45.020 --> 00:47.160 So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. 00:47.560 --> 00:51.040 And it came to pass, when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, fled to David to 00:51.040 --> 00:53.760 Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. 00:54.360 --> 00:58.720 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah, and Saul said, God hath 00:58.720 --> 01:03.660 delivered him into mine hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that hath 01:03.660 --> 01:04.840 gates and bars. 01:05.280 --> 01:10.220 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David 01:10.220 --> 01:10.840 and his men. 01:11.540 --> 01:14.800 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him, 01:15.180 --> 01:17.940 and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. 01:18.240 --> 01:23.980 Then said David, O Lord God of Israel, Thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul 01:23.980 --> 01:27.260 seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. 01:28.420 --> 01:30.620 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? 01:31.500 --> 01:33.740 Will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? 01:34.980 --> 01:38.300 O Lord God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. 01:38.760 --> 01:41.140 And the Lord said, He will come down. 01:41.480 --> 01:45.840 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of 01:45.840 --> 01:46.060 Saul? 01:46.340 --> 01:49.160 And the Lord said, They will deliver thee up. 01:49.160 --> 01:53.840 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of 01:53.840 --> 01:56.220 Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. 01:56.900 --> 02:01.040 And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah, and he forbear to go 02:01.040 --> 02:01.420 forth. 02:02.160 --> 02:05.980 And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, and remained in a mountain in 02:05.980 --> 02:06.860 the wilderness of Ziph. 02:07.360 --> 02:11.860 And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand. 02:12.600 --> 02:16.300 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life, and David was in the 02:16.300 --> 02:17.800 wilderness of Ziph, in a wood. 02:17.800 --> 02:21.600 And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, 02:21.700 --> 02:23.640 and strengthened his hand in God. 02:23.700 --> 02:28.160 And he said unto him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not 02:28.160 --> 02:34.420 find thee, and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee, 02:35.200 --> 02:37.960 and that also Saul my father knoweth. 02:38.520 --> 02:40.620 And they too made a covenant before the Lord. 02:41.160 --> 02:43.980 And David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house. 02:44.860 --> 02:49.080 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide 02:49.080 --> 02:53.260 himself with us in strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hakeilah, 02:53.720 --> 02:55.560 which is on the south of Jeshimon? 02:56.180 --> 03:02.340 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come 03:02.340 --> 03:07.360 down, and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand. 03:07.640 --> 03:12.400 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the Lord, for ye have compassion on me. 03:12.400 --> 03:17.540 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, 03:17.760 --> 03:22.020 and who hath seen him there, for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. 03:22.700 --> 03:26.200 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth 03:26.200 --> 03:30.640 himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you, 03:30.680 --> 03:34.020 and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out 03:34.020 --> 03:36.000 throughout all the thousands of Judah. 03:36.140 --> 03:38.420 And they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. 03:38.420 --> 03:42.280 But David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the 03:42.280 --> 03:43.140 south of Jeshimon. 03:43.880 --> 03:45.580 Saul also and his men went to seek him. 03:46.160 --> 03:50.240 And they told David, wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the 03:50.240 --> 03:51.180 wilderness of Maon. 03:51.820 --> 03:55.520 And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. 03:56.040 --> 03:59.560 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that 03:59.560 --> 04:00.200 side of the mountain. 04:00.740 --> 04:05.000 And David made haste to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men compassed 04:05.000 --> 04:06.820 David and his men round about to take them. 04:07.420 --> 04:11.780 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come, for the 04:11.780 --> 04:13.340 Philistines have invaded the land. 04:13.620 --> 04:17.520 Wherefore Saul returned for pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines. 04:18.060 --> 04:20.720 Therefore they called that place Sila Hamalakoth. 04:21.300 --> 04:24.980 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strongholds at En Gedi.