1 Samuel 23:7
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23:7When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered3 him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates.”4
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- 3 The reading (“God has alienated him into my hand”) in v. 7 is a difficult and uncommon idiom. The use of this verb in Jer 19:4 is somewhat parallel, but not entirely so. Many scholars have therefore suspected a textual problem here, emending the word נִכַּר (nikkar, “alienated”) to סִכַּר (sikkar, “he has shut up [i.e., delivered]”). This is the idea reflected in the translations of the and , although it is not entirely clear whether they are reading something different from the or are simply paraphrasing what for them too may have been a difficult text. The has “God has sold him into my hands,” apparently reading מַכַר (makar, “sold”) for ’s נִכַּר. The present translation is a rather free interpretation.
- 4 Heb “with two gates and a bar.” Since in English “bar” could be understood as a saloon, it has been translated as an attributive: “two barred gates.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, “God has delivered him into my hands, for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
When it was reported to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with barred gates.”
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NLTNew Living Translation
Saul soon learned that David was at Keilah. “Good!” he exclaimed. “We’ve got him now! God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself in a walled town!”
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
When it was told to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, Saul said, “God has given him into my hand, because he has shut himself in by going into a city with two barred gates.
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KJV 1900King James Version
And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
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