Then David asked counsel of the Lord again. And the Lord answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah: for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.

¶ So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter: thus David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

(And when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech (A)fled to David to Keilah, he brought an [a]Ephod [b]with him.)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 23:6 By God’s providence the Ephod was preserved and kept with David the true king.
  2. 1 Samuel 23:6 Hebrew, in his hand.

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