1 Samuel 23:7

New International Version

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.”

Cross References

Job 20:5

that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Psalm 31:21

Praise be to the Lord, for he showed me the wonders of his love when I was in a city under siege.

Exodus 14:3

Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’

1 Samuel 23:14

David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

1 Samuel 23:6

(Now Abiathar son of Ahimelek had brought the ephod down with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)

1 Samuel 23:8

And Saul called up all his forces for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.