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1 Samuel 23:1

DavidKeilah
Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”

2 So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”

3 But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”
KJV
Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
WEB
David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
ASV
And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing-floors.
DARBY
And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.
BLB
And they declared to David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing floors.”
ÅB
Så kom det noen og sa til David: Filistrene har nå kringsatt Ke'ila, og de plyndrer låvene.
OTB
Da fortalte de David: "Se, filisterne kjemper mot Ke'ila og plyndrer treskeplassene."
B1930
Så kom det nogen og sa til David: Filistrene har nu kringsatt Ke'ila, og de plyndrer låvene.

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Cross references

  • Joshua 15:44

    Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.

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  • Nehemiah 3:17–18

    Next to him, the Levites made repairs under Rehum son of Bani, and next to him, Hashabiah, ruler of a half-district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

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  • Micah 6:15

    You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:33

    A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:51

    They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

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  • Judges 6:4

    encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.

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  • Leviticus 26:16

    then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

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  • Judges 6:11

    Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

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