1 Samuel 23:7

New American Bible - revised edition

When Saul was told that David had entered Keilah, he thought: “God has put him in my hand, for he has boxed himself in by entering a city with gates and bars.”

Cross References

Job 20:5

The triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the impious but for a moment?

Psalm 31:21

You hide them in the shelter of your presence, safe from scheming enemies. You conceal them in your tent, away from the strife of tongues.

Exodus 14:3

Pharaoh will then say, “The Israelites are wandering about aimlessly in the land. The wilderness has closed in on them.”

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them; I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them; I will draw my sword; my hand will despoil them!”

1 Samuel 23:14

David now lived in the strongholds in the wilderness, or in the barren hill country near Ziph. Though Saul sought him continually, the Lord did not deliver David into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:6

Abiathar, son of Ahimelech, who had fled to David, went down with David to Keilah, taking the ephod with him. Flight from Keilah.

1 Samuel 23:8

Saul then called all the army to war, in order to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men.