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ABOUT this time it was that David heard how the Philistines had made
an inroad into the country of Keilah, and robbed it; so he offered himself
to fight against them, if God, when he should be consulted by the prophet,
would grant him the victory. And when the prophet said that God gave a
signal of victory, he made a sudden onset upon the Philistines with his
companions, and he shed a great deal of their blood, and carried off their
prey, and staid with the inhabitants of Keilah till they had securely gathered
in their corn and their fruits. However, it was told Saul the king that
David was with the men of Keilah; for what had been done and the great
success that had attended him, were not confined among the people where
the things were done, but the fame of it went all abroad, and came to the
hearing of others, and both the fact as it stood, and the author of the
fact, were carried to the king's ears. Then was Saul glad when he heard
David was in Keilah; and he said, "God hath now put him into my hands,
since he hath obliged him to come into a city that hath walls, and gates,
and bars." So he commanded all the people suddenly, and when they
had besieged and taken it to kill David. But when David perceived this,
and learned of God that if he staid there the men of Keilah would deliver
him up to Saul, he took his four hundred men and retired into a desert
that was over against a city called Engedi. So that when the king heard
he was fled away from the men of Keilah, he left off his expedition against
him.
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