Quotes about Keilah
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.”
— 1 Samuel 23:2
Next 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 3:17
Then David and his men went to Keilah, fought against the Philistines, and carried off their livestock, striking them with a mighty blow. So David saved the people of Keilah.
— 1 Samuel 23:5
Once again, David inquired of the LORD, and the LORD answered him: “Go at once to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
— 1 Samuel 23:4
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?”
— 1 Samuel 23:3
(Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)
— 1 Samuel 23:6
Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.
— Joshua 15:44
And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.
— 1 Samuel 23:10
When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
— 1 Samuel 23:7
Then David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.
— 1 Samuel 23:13
Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.
— 1 Samuel 23:8
The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
— 1 Chronicles 4:19