3 But David’s fellow men said to him, “Look, we’re afraid here in Judah; how much more so if we go to Keilah against the Philistine forces?”
4 Once again David inquired of Adonai, and Adonai answered him saying, “Arise! Go to Keilah, for I am going to deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
5 So David and his fellow men went to Keilah and fought against the Philistines, drove off their livestock and inflicted a great slaughter on them. Thus David rescued the inhabitants of Keilah.
6 It came about, when Abiathar son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
7 Now when Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand! For he shut himself in by entering a town with barred gates.”
8 So Saul summoned all the troops for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his fellow men.
9 Now David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him, so he said to Abiathar the kohen, “Bring the ephod.”