1 Samuel 23:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 3 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and departing from Ceila, wandered up and down uncertain where they should stay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had escaped: wherefore he forbore to go out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Saul summoned all the men for war, to go to Keilah to besiege David and his men.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

Common English Bible

⁸ So Saul called up all his troops for war, to go down to Keilah and attack David and his soldiers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And Saul instructed all the people to descend in order to fight against Keilah, and to besiege David and his men.

1 Samuel 23:8 Cross References

1 Samuel 23:7

2 And David said: Will the men of Ceila deliver me, and my men, into the hands of Saul? And the Lord said: They will deliver thee up.

1 Samuel 23:9

4 But David abode in the desert in strong holds, and he remained in a mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought him always: but the Lord delivered him not into his hands.

1 Kings 2:26

1 And the king said to him: Do as he hath said: and kill him, and bury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed by Joab, from me, and from the house of my father.

1 Samuel 23:10

5 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David was in the desert of Ziph, in a wood.