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The Darby Translation

1 Samuel 23:8

And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   David;   Ingratitude;   Keilah;   Malice;   Thompson Chain Reference - Saul, King of Israel;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Keilah;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Keilah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abiathar;   Urim and Thummim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Keilah;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Wisdom of Christ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Keilah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rock;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Keilah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Kei'lah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Urim and Thummim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Keilah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Saul summoned all the troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.
Hebrew Names Version
Sha'ul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Ke`ilah, to besiege David and his men.
King James Version
And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
Lexham English Bible
Saul then summoned all of the army for the battle, to go down to Keilah to lay a siege against David and his men.
English Standard Version
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
New Century Version
Saul called all his army together for battle, and they prepared to go down to Keilah to attack David and his men.
New English Translation
So Saul mustered all his army to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men.
Amplified Bible
So Saul summoned all the people (soldiers) for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
New American Standard Bible
So Saul summoned all the people for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Saul called all the people together to warre, for to go downe to Keilah, & to besiege Dauid and his men.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Saul summoned all the people for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
Complete Jewish Bible
So Sha'ul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Ke‘ilah and besiege David and his men.
Easy-to-Read Version
Saul called all his army together for battle. They prepared to go down to Keilah to attack David and his men.
George Lamsa Translation
And Saul called all the people together to war to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
Good News Translation
So Saul called his troops to war, to march against Keilah and besiege David and his men.
Literal Translation
And Saul heard and called all the people to battle, to go down to Keilah, to lay siege to David and to his men.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Saul caused for to call all the people downe to ye battaill vnto Cegila, yt they might besege Dauid and his men.
American Standard Version
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
Bible in Basic English
And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Saul called all the people together to warre, for to go downe to Keila, and to besiege Dauid and his men.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
King James Version (1611)
And Saul called all the people together to warre, to goe downe to Keilah, to besiege Dauid, and his men.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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English Revised Version
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Saul comaundide to al the puple, that it schulde go doun to batel in to Seila, and bisege Dauid and hise men.
Young's Literal Translation
And Saul summoneth the whole of the people to battle, to go down to Keilah, to lay siege unto David and unto his men.
Update Bible Version
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
World English Bible
Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
New King James Version
Then Saul called all the people together for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
New Living Translation
So Saul mobilized his entire army to march to Keilah and besiege David and his men.
New Life Bible
Saul called all the men for war, to go down to Keilah to trap David and his men.
New Revised Standard
Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Saul summoned all the people to war, - to go down to Keilah, to besiege David, and his men.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul commanded all the people to go down to fight against Ceila, and to besiege David and his men.
Revised Standard Version
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Kei'lah, to besiege David and his men.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Saul summoned all the people for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.

Contextual Overview

7 And it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Then Saul said, God has cast him off into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a city that has gates and bars. 8 And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. 9 And when David knew that Saul devised mischief against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod. 10 Then said David, Jehovah, God of Israel, thy servant hath heard for certain that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. 11 Will the citizens of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? Jehovah, God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And Jehovah said, He will come down. 12 And David said, Will the citizens of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah said, They will deliver [thee] up. 13 Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, and he forbore to go forth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:10 - destroy the city

Cross-References

Genesis 23:1
And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died in Kirjath-Arba: that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 23:3
And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me.
Genesis 25:9
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which was opposite to Mamre—
1 Kings 2:17
And he said, Speak, I pray thee, to Solomon the king—for he will not refuse thee—that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul called all the people together to war,.... Or "caused [them] to hear" m summoned them by an herald, whom he sent into all parts of the kingdom to proclaim war, and require them in his name to attend him; which was the prerogative of a king to do:

to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men; that was what he privately intended, but the pretence was to make war against the Philistines.

m ישמע "fecit audire", Montanus, Piscator.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 23:8. Saul called all the people together — That is, all the people of that region or district, that they might scour the country, and hunt out David from all his haunts.


 
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