1. Then they told David, “Listen, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are looting the threshing floors.”
2. Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?”And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines, and rescue Keilah.”
3. The men of David said to him, “We are afraid here in Judah. How much more then, if we go down to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
4. Then David again inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered him and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah because I am giving the Philistines into your hand.”
5. Then David and his men went to Keilah. He fought with the Philistines and carried off their livestock, and he struck them with a great slaughter. So David rescued the inhabitants of Keilah.
6. When Abiathar the son of Ahimelek fled to David at Keilah, he came down with the ephod in his hand.
7. It was reported to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand. For he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”
8. Then Saul summoned all the people together for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.