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1 Samuel 23:7
“It was told Saul 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.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 23
5
David 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.
6
It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
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It was told Saul 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.
8
Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
9
David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here.
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