1 David was asked, “Did you know that the Philistines are fighting against Keilah? They are robbing the threshing floors.”
2 David asked the Lord, “Should I go and attack these Philistines?”“Go,” the Lord told David, “attack the Philistines, and save Keilah.”
3 David’s men told him, “We’re afraid of staying here in Judah. How much more ⌊afraid do you think we’ll be⌋ if we go to Keilah against the Philistine army?”
4 David asked the Lord again, and the Lord answered him. He said, “Go to Keilah. I’m giving you the power to defeat the Philistines.”
5 David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines, drove off their livestock, and decisively defeated them. So David rescued the people who lived in Keilah.
6 When Ahimelech’s son Abiathar fled to David at Keilah, Abiathar brought a priestly ephod with him.
7 When Saul was told that David went to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hands. He has trapped himself by going into a city which has ⌊a gate with⌋ a double door ⌊held shut by⌋ a bar.”