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1 Samuel 23:1
1 Samuel 23:1 is verse 1 of 1 Samuel chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”
King James Version
Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
World English Bible
David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
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1 Samuel 23:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”
2 So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
3 But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Joshua 15:44Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.
Nehemiah 3:17Next to him, the Levites made repairs under Rehum son of Bani, and next to him, Hashabiah, ruler of a half-district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.
Nehemiah 3:18Next to him, their countrymen made repairs under Binnui son of Henadad, ruler of the other half-district of Keilah.
Leviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
Deuteronomy 28:51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
Judges 6:4encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.
Judges 6:11Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
Micah 6:15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.