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highlighted 1 Samuel 23:8 NLT

So Saul mobilized his entire army to march to Keilah and besiege David and his men.

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highlighted 1 Samuel 23:7 NLT

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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highlighted 1 Samuel 23:5 NLT

So David and his men went to Keilah. They slaughtered the Philistines and took all their livestock and rescued the people of Keilah.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 23:2-4 NLT

David asked the LORD, “Should I go and attack them?” “Yes, go and save Keilah,” the LORD told him. But David’s men said, “We’re afraid even here in Judah. We certainly don’t want to go to Keilah to fight the whole Philistine army!” So David asked the LORD again, and again the LORD replied, “Go down to Keilah, for I will help you conquer the Philistines.”

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highlighted 1 Samuel 23:1 NLT

One day news came to David that the Philistines were at Keilah stealing grain from the threshing floors.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:23 NLT

Stay here with me, and don’t be afraid. I will protect you with my own life, for the same person wants to kill us both.”

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:21-22 NLT

When he told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD, David exclaimed, “I knew it! When I saw Doeg the Edomite there that day, I knew he was sure to tell Saul. Now I have caused the death of all your father’s family.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:20 NLT

Only Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, escaped and fled to David.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:19 NLT

Then he went to Nob, the town of the priests, and killed the priests’ families—men and women, children and babies—and all the cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:18 NLT

Then the king said to Doeg, “You do it.” So Doeg the Edomite turned on them and killed them that day, eighty-five priests in all, still wearing their priestly garments.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:17 NLT

And he ordered his bodyguards, “Kill these priests of the LORD, for they are allies and conspirators with David! They knew he was running away from me, but they didn’t tell me!” But Saul’s men refused to kill the LORD’s priests.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:16 NLT

“You will surely die, Ahimelech, along with your entire family!” the king shouted.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:13 NLT

“Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me?” Saul demanded. “Why did you give him food and a sword? Why have you consulted God for him? Why have you encouraged him to kill me, as he is trying to do this very day?”

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:14 NLT

“But sir,” Ahimelech replied, “is anyone among all your servants as faithful as David, your son-in-law? Why, he is the captain of your bodyguard and a highly honored member of your household!

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:6-8 NLT

The news of his arrival in Judah soon reached Saul. At the time, the king was sitting beneath the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, holding his spear and surrounded by his officers. “Listen here, you men of Benjamin!” Saul shouted to his officers when he heard the news. “Has that son of Jesse promised every one of you fields and vineyards? Has he promised to make you all generals and captains in his army? Is that why you have conspired against me? For not one of you told me when my own son made a solemn pact with the son of Jesse. You’re not even sorry for me. Think of it! My own son—encouraging him to kill me, as he is trying to do this very day!”

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 22:3-5 NLT

Later David went to Mizpeh in Moab, where he asked the king, “Please allow my father and mother to live here with you until I know what God is going to do for me.” So David’s parents stayed in Moab with the king during the entire time David was living in his stronghold. One day the prophet Gad told David, “Leave the stronghold and return to the land of Judah.” So David went to the forest of Hereth.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 21:12-13 NLT

David heard these comments and was very afraid of what King Achish of Gath might do to him. So he pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and drooling down his beard.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 21:11 NLT

But the officers of Achish were unhappy about his being there. “Isn’t this David, the king of the land?” they asked. “Isn’t he the one the people honor with dances, singing, ‘Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 21:10 NLT

So David escaped from Saul and went to King Achish of Gath.

Mar 6

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highlighted 1 Samuel 21:9 NLT

“I only have the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah,” the priest replied. “It is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. Take that if you want it, for there is nothing else here.” “There is nothing like it!” David replied. “Give it to me!”

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