1 Samuel 23:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.””
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“Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing-floors.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And they declare to David, saying, `Lo, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are spoiling the threshing-floors.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 23:1 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 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.
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Joshua 15:44Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.
- Judges 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.
- Judges 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.
- Nehemiah 3:17Next 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.
- Nehemiah 3:18Next to him, their countrymen made repairs under Binnui son of Henadad, ruler of the other half-district of Keilah.
- Micah 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.
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