These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 23
Tanakh 29 verses
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And they told , saying: ‘Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.’
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- 2 Therefore inquired of , saying: ‘Shall I go and smite these Philistines?’ And said unto : ‘Go, and smite the Philistines, and Keilah.’
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And David’s men said unto him: ‘Behold, we are afraid here in ; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?’
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Then inquired of yet again. And answered him and said: ‘Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.’
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- 5 And and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. So saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
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And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
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And it was told that was come to Keilah. And said: ‘ hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.’
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- 8 And summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege and his men.
- 9 And knew that devised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the : ‘Bring hither the ephod.’
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Then said : ‘O , the of , Thy hath surely heard that seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
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Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will come down, as Thy hath heard?’ O , the of , I beseech Thee, tell Thy .’ And said: ‘He will come down.’
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Then said : ‘Will the men of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of ?’ And said: ‘They will deliver thee up.’
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Then and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told that was escaped from Keilah; and he forbore to go forth.
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- 14 And abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And sought him every day, but delivered him not into his hand.
- 15 And saw that was come out to seek his life; and was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
- 16 And Saul’s son arose, and went to into the wood, and strengthened his hand in .
- 17 And he said unto him: ‘Fear not; for the hand of my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be over , and I shall be next unto thee; and that also my father knoweth.’
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And they two made a before ; and abode in the wood, and went to his house.
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Then came up the Ziphites to to Gibeah, saying: ‘Doth not hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
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- 20 Now therefore, O , come down, according to all the desire of thy to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.’
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And said: ‘Blessed be ye of ; for ye have had compassion on me.
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Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.
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See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye back to me with the certainty, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of .’
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And they arose, and went to Ziph before ; but and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of Jeshimon.
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And and his men went to seek him. And they told ; wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when heard that, he pursued after in the wilderness of Maon.
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- 26 And went on this side of the mountain, and and his men on that side of the mountain; and made haste to get away for of ; for and his men compassed and his men round about to take them.
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But there came a messenger unto , saying: ‘Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land.’
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- 28 So returned from pursuing after , and went against the Philistines; therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.
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And went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.
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