David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
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David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
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So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
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And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 23:5 So David and his men went to…
1Sa 23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
Ver. 5. And brought away their cattle.] Which either they found about their camp, or fetched out of their country.
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So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.] And therefore deserved a corona civica of them, but met with ill measure. {1Sa 23:12}
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 The Philistines had either brought
The Philistines had either brought
their cattle out of their land, or had taken from the Israelites in their march, for the sustenance of their army.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So David and his men went to Keilah,.... Animated…
So David and his men went to Keilah,.... Animated by a commission from God, and a promise of success by him:
and fought with the Philistines; encamped before Keilah:
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and brought away their cattle; which they had brought with them for the support of their army; or having routed them, they pursued them into their own country, and brought off their cattle from thence:
and smote them with a great slaughter; killed great numbers of them, and put the rest to flight:
so David saved the inhabitants of Keilah; from falling into the hands of the Philistines, by timely raising the siege of the city.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. Brought away their cattle] The forage and…
Verse 5. Brought away their cattle] The forage and spoil which the Philistines had taken, driving the country before them round about Keilah.
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Sa 23:5. So David and his men went to…
1Sa 23:5. So David and his men went to Keilah, &c. — “His success on this occasion was very extraordinary; he saved the city and the inhabitants; he delivered the country all around from the ravages of the enemy; he smote the Philistines with great slaughter, and brought away their cattle, by which means he was enabled to subsist himself and his forces, without being a burden to his country. One would have imagined that this extraordinary success and deliverance of so great a city might have secured David a safe retreat among the men of Keilah; but it was not so; such is the nature of man, present dangers quickly obliterate past obligations! Gratitude is, without question, a most lovely virtue, but seldom lives in the extremes either of adversity or success! It is like those fine colours which storms and sunshine equally deface.” — Delaney.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 went ... fought ... led ... struck ... saved
went ... fought ... led ... struck ... saved
The writer pays the most attention to David, so these words are all singular, though David's men helped him do all these things. (See: Synecdoche)
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Ahimelech
This is the name of a man. See how you translated this in 1 Samuel 21:1. (See: How to Translate Names)
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David
Philistines
cow
slaughter
Abiathar
ephod
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