Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”
Parallel translations
- WEB David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
- KJV Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
- NKJV Then they told David, saying, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are robbing the threshing floors.”
- NASB Then they informed David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are plundering the threshing floors.”
- NLT One day news came to David that the Philistines were at Keilah stealing grain from the threshing floors.
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David learns that the Philistines are attacking Keilah and plundering its threshing floors.
Overview
Word reaches David that the Philistines are raiding the Judean town of Keilah, stealing its harvest. Though a hunted fugitive, David is drawn to the plight of his fellow Israelites. The report sets up David's first recorded act of deliverance for God's people, foreshadowing his role as their shepherd-king.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Josh 15:44Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.
- Mic 6:15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- Neh 3:17–18Next 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.
- Lev 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- Deut 28:33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- Judg 6:4encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.
- Deut 28:51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
- Judg 6:11Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
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The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.
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