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## 1 Samuel 23:14-19 in Context (Verses 11–22 KJV)
 
 [11 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/11) Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/12) Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver *thee* up.*
 
 [13 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/13) ¶ Then David and his men, *which were* about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/14) And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/15) And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David *was* in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/16) ¶ And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/17) And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/18) And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/19) ¶ Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which *is* on the south of Jeshimon?**
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/20) Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part *shall be* to deliver him into the king’s hand.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/21) And Saul said, Blessed *be* ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-samuel/23/22) Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, *and* who hath seen him there: for it is told me *that* he dealeth very subtilly.*
 
[1 Samuel 22](/kjv/1-samuel/22) [1 Samuel 24](/kjv/1-samuel/24)

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