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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 23:1

David’s growing importance, fugitive as he was, is marked by this appeal to him for deliverance from the Philistines. The “threshing floors” were the natural objects of plunder Judges 6:11. Keilah was in the Shephelah (marginal reference), probably close to the Philistine border, but its site is uncertain.



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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXIII _David succours Keilah, besieged by the Philistines; defeats_ _them, and delivers the city_, 1-6. _Saul, hearing that David was at Keilah, determines to come and_ _seize him_, 7, 8....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The victory over the Philistines at Keilah (1 Samuel 23:1)_ 2. In the wilderness of Ziph (1 Samuel 23:14) 3. Saul's return (1 Samuel 23:27) Keilah was about six miles sou

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 SAMUEL 23. DAVID ESCAPES FROM SAUL (J). 1 Samuel 23:1. David hears that the Philistines are raiding the territory of Keilah (p. 31), a little S. of Adullam. He ascertains by oracles, probably using...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    1 Samuel 23:1-6. The rescue of Keilah 1. _Then they told David_ Simply, AND THEY TOLD. There is no mark of time. The appeal to David shews that he was growing to be regarded as the champion of Israel...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN THEY TOLD DAVID— Or, _Now they had told._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Saul's Pursuit of David to Keilah, 1 Samuel 23:1-29. _Abiathar, the Priest, With David._ 1 Samuel 23:1-6 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the t...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN THEY TOLD DAVID, SAYING, BEHOLD, THE PHILISTINES FIGHT AGAINST KEILAH, AND THEY ROB THE THRESHINGFLOORS._ Then they told ... the Philistines fight against Keilah - rather 'now they had told;' f...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID DELIVERS KEILAH AND AFTERWARDS RETIRES TO THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH AND MAON 6. _With_ AN EPHOD IN HIS HAND] This is inserted to explain how it was that David was able to enquire of the LORD: see...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 23 DAVID SAVES THE TOWN OF KEILAH V1 Someone told David that the *Philistines were attacking the town of Keilah. And they were stealing the g...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN THEY TOLD DAVID.... — For this and like duties the prophet Gad (1 Samuel 22:5) had summoned David to return with his armed band to Judah. There was a great work ready to his hand in his own count...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּגִּ֥דוּ לְ דָוִ֖ד לֵ אמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֤ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXX. _ DAVID AT KEILAH, ZIPH, AND MAON._ 1 Samuel 23:1. THE period of David's life shortly sketched in this chapter, must have been full of trying and exciting events. If we knew all the det...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SUCCESS AND SAFETY UNDER GOD'S GUIDANCE 1 Samuel 23:1 We learn here that those who are called to walk in the maze of human life need to look constantly upward for direction. “It is not in man that wa...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The series of happenings recorded in this chapter reveals most vividly the appalling condition of affairs in the kingdom. Saul, still nominally king, filled with hatred for David, was devoting all hi...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against (a) Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. (a) Which was a city in the tribe of Judah, (Joshua 15:44)....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Barns. The floors were composed of earth and the dregs of oil, made into a sort of mortar, so that rain, mice, &c., could not hurt them. (Cato 91 and 129.) --- Hither the people of Ceila had gathered...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS This is an interesting Chapter, and it contains some sweet practical instructions to the exercised believer, in his views of what is here recorded in the life of David. Saul is still pursuing...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. (2) Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philis...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    David, despised as he may be, is the king and saviour of the people; he puts the Philistines to flight with great slaughter. He finds nothing but treachery in Israel, of which Saul makes use in the ho...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THEY TOLD DAVID,.... Either the men of Keilah sent to him, being near them, or some well wishers of theirs, and of their country, acquainted him with their case: SAYING, BEHOLD, THE PHILISTINES...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. Ver. 1. _Then they told David._] The men of Keilah in the land of Judah seek help of Davi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then they told_ Or rather, _Now they had told David._ For it is evident from 1 Samuel 23:6, that David had received the information here referred to, and had even delivered the inhabitants of Keilah...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Dauid enquiring of the Lord by Abiathar, rescueth Keilah. 7 God shewing him the comming of Saul and the trecherie of the Keilites, he escapeth from Keilah. 14 In Ziph Ionathan commeth and comforte...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then they told David, he received information, SAYING, BEHOLD, THE PHILISTINES, a strong band of their raiders, FIGHT AGAINST KEILAH, a city evidently in the lowland of Judah, near the Philistine fron...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    David's Rescue of Keilah...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    David remains devoted to his people Israel. It is disturbing to him to hear that the Philistines were fighting against Keilah and robbing grain from the threshing floors. Saul shows no concern for the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 When princes persecute God's people, let them expect vexation on all sides. The way for any country to be quiet, is to let God's church be quiet in it: if Saul fight against David, the Philistines...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 23 David, inquiring of the Lord by Abiathar, rescueth Keilah, and goeth into it, 1 SAMUEL 23:1. God showing him the coming of Saul, and treachery of the Kennites, 1 SAMUEL 23:7, he fl...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 23:1 told H5046 (H8686) David H1732 saying H559 (H8800) Philistines H6430 fighting H3898 (H8737) Keilah...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SECTION 4 SUBSECTION B. DAVID DELIVERS KEILAH FROM AN INVASION BY THE PHILISTINES, IS VISITED BY JONATHAN, AND EVADES CAPTURE BY SAUL (1 SAMUEL 23:1) a David Delivers Keilah From An Invasion By The...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID DELIVERS KEILAH FROM THE PHILISTINES (1 SAMUEL 23:1). The last we heard David and his men were in the Forest of Hareth (whereabouts unknown). If they were still there when Abiathar sought them o...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Wanderings and adventures of David. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Jonathan, Abiathar. CONCLUSION: Whatever befalls us, if we acknowledge God in all our ways and seek direction from Him, Go...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 23:1. _Keilah,_ a walled town in the south of Judah, near the sources of the brook Besor. 1 Samuel 23:4. _David enquired of the Lord yet again._ Gideon also asked a double sign in time of fe...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 23:1 KEILAH was probably 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Adullam and east of Gath. It was apparently closer to Philistine territory than Hereth was....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 22:1. “KEILAH.” A city of Judah, mentioned in Joshua 15:44, and identified by Lieut. Van de Velde with a site containing ruins, and now called Kila, a few miles...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    ADVENTURES OF DAVID AT KEILAH AND IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH (1 Samuel 23:1). EXPOSITION DAVID RESCUES KEILAH, BUT HAS

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they're robbing their threshingfloors. So David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philisti...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:51; Joshua 15:44; Judges 6:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Philistines, &c. — Probably it was the departure of God and David from Saul, that encouraged the Philistines to make this inroad. When princes begin to persecute God's people and ministers, let th...

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