1 Samuel 23:1
Then told they David, saying,—Lo! the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing-floors.
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Leviticus 26:16I also, will do this unto you—I will set over you, for terror, consumption and fever, Causing the eyes to fail and the soul to pine away,—And ye shall sow, in vain, your seed, for it shall be eaten by your foes.
Deuteronomy 28:51then shall he eat the young of thy cattle and the fruit of thy ground until thou art destroyed, who will not leave for thee corn, new wine or oil, the young of thy kine, or the ewes of thy flock,—until he hath caused thee to perish.
Judges 6:4and encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the land, until thou comest unto Gaza,—neither left they sustenance in Israel, nor sheep nor ox, nor ass;
Nehemiah 3:17after him, repaired, the Levites, Rehum son of Bani,—at his hand, repaired, Hashabiah, ruler of the half-circuit of Keilah, for his circuit;
Micah 6:15Thou, shalt sow, but shalt not reap,—thou, shalt tread the olive, but shalt not anoint thee with oil, also the grape, but shalt not drink the wine.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 23:1
Saul, having made himself drunk with the blood of the priests of the Lord, is here, in this chapter, seeking David's life, who appears here doing good, and suffering ill, at the same time. Here is, I. The good service he did to his king and country, in rescuing the city of Keilah out of the hands of the Philistines, ver. 1-6 . II. The danger he was thereby brought into from the malice of the prince he served and the treachery of the city he saved, and his deliverance, by divine direction, from that danger, ver.… Read the whole commentary →