²So David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And Yahweh said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save^a Keilah.” ³But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more^b if we go to Keilah to the battle lines of the Philistines?” ⁴So David again inquired of Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him and said, “Get up, go down to Keilah, for I am giving the Philistines into your hand.” ⁵So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines. They drove off their livestock and dealt them a heavy blow.^c So David saved^d the inhabitants of Keilah.

David Flees from Saul at Keilah

⁶Now when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled^e to David at Keilah, he went down with an ephod in his hand. ⁷When it was told to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, Saul said, “God has given him^f into my hand, because he has shut himself in by going into a city with two barred gates.^g ⁸Saul then summoned all of the army for the battle, to go down to Keilah to lay a siege against David and his men. ⁹When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

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Footnotes

aOr “deliver” or “rescue”
bLiterally “also for”
cLiterally “he struck them with a great smiting”
dOr “delivered” or “rescued”
eLiterally “And it happened that at the fleeing of Abiathar son of Ahimelech”
fLiterally “has made him a stranger”
gLiterally “two gates and a bar”