New Living Translation (NLT)
1 Samuel 22
20 Only Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, escaped and fled to David.
21 When he told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD,
22 David exclaimed, “I knew it! When I saw Doeg the Edomite there that day, I knew he was sure to tell Saul. Now I have caused the death of all your father’s family.
23 Stay here with me, and don’t be afraid. I will protect you with my own life, for the same person wants to kill us both.”
1 Samuel 23
1 One day news came to David that the Philistines were at Keilah stealing grain from the threshing floors.
2 David asked the LORD, “Should I go and attack them?” “Yes, go and save Keilah,” the LORD told him.
3 But David’s men said, “We’re afraid even here in Judah. We certainly don’t want to go to Keilah to fight the whole Philistine army!”
4 So David asked the LORD again, and again the LORD replied, “Go down to Keilah, for I will help you conquer the Philistines.”
5 So David and his men went to Keilah. They slaughtered the Philistines and took all their livestock and rescued the people of Keilah.
6 Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, he brought the ephod with him.
7 Saul soon learned that David was at Keilah. “Good!” he exclaimed. “We’ve got him now! God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself in a walled town!”
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