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David Delivers Keilah and Inquires of God

1 Samuel 23:1-6

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Chapter 23
1 They told David, "The Philistines are fighting in Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing floors." 2 He inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" And the LORD said to David, "Go and strike the Philistines, and you will save Keilah." 3 And David's men said to him, "Look, we here in Judah are afraid, and even if we go to Keilah against the battle-arrays of the Philistines." 4 David continued to inquire of the LORD, and the LORD answered him, "Rise, go down to Keilah, for I am delivering the Philistines into your hand." 5 David and his men went to Keilah and fought against the Philistines. They drove off their livestock, struck them with a great blow, and David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah. 6 It was when Abiathar son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah that an ephod came down in his hand.