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1 Samuel 23:10

Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • KJV King James Version

    Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Then said David: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, Thy servant hath surely heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

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Cross-references (6)

Passages linked to 1 Samuel 23:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Genesis 18:24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
  • 1 Samuel 22:19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
  • 1 Samuel 23:8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
  • Esther 3:6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
  • Proverbs 28:15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
  • Romans 3:15-16 “Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 23:10 Then said David, O LORD God of…

1Sa 23:10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

Ver. 10. O Lord God of Israel.] He runneth to the Rock of Ages for help in this distress, as was his constant course when hardly bestead.

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To destroy the city for my sake.] So in the holy war, as they called it, against the Waldenses in France, the Pope’s great army took one great populous city, and put to the sword sixty thousand: among whom were many of their own Catholics. {a}

{a} Caesar Heistorbachensis, Hist., lib. v. cap. 21.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain David said this by the priest, for he was…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then said David,.... By the priest, for it was…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 David said

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