RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

23 Stay with me, fear not: for he that seeks my chayim
seeks your chayim: but with me you shall be safe.
23 Then they told Dawid, saying, See, the Plishtim fight
against Keilah, and they rob the threshing floors.
2 Therefore Dawid inquired of vuvh, saying, Shall I go
and smite these Plishtim? And vuvh said to Dawid, Go,
and smite the Plishtim, and save Keilah.
3 And Dawid's men said to him, See, we are afraid here in
Yahudah: how much more then if we come to Keilah
against the armies of the Plishtim?
4 Then Dawid inquired of vuvh yet again. And vuvh
answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah, for I
will deliver the Plishtim into your hand.
5 So Dawid and his men went to Keilah, and fought with
the Plishtim, and brought away their cattle, and smote
them with a great slaughter. So Dawid saved the
inhabitants of Keilah.
6 And it came to pass, when Aviathar the son of
Achimelech fled to Dawid at Keilah, that he came down
with a shoulder garment in his hand.
7 And it was told Shaul that Dawid was come to Keilah.
And Shaul said, Elohim has delivered him into my hand;
for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and
bars.
8 And Shaul called all the people together to war, to go
down to Keilah, to besiege Dawid and his men.
9 And Dawid knew that Shaul secretly plotted mischief
against him; and he said to Aviathar the kohen, Bring here
the shoulder garment.
10 Then said Dawid, O vuvh Elohim of Yisrael, Your
eved has certainly heard that Shaul seeks to come to
Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand?
Will Shaul come down, as Your eved has heard? O vuvh
Elohim of Yisrael, I beseech You, tell Your eved. And
vuvh said, He will come down.
12 Then said Dawid, Will the men of Keilah deliver me
and my men into the hand of Shaul? And vuvh said, They
will deliver you up.
13 Then Dawid and his men, who were about six
hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went
wherever they could go. And it was told Shaul that Dawid
had escaped from Keilah; and he ceased to go forth.
14 And Dawid stayed in the wilderness in strongholds,
and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Zif. And
Shaul sought him every day, but Elohim delivered him
not into his hand.
15 And Dawid saw that Shaul had come out to seek his
chayim: and Dawid was in the wilderness of Zif in the
forest.
16 And Yonathan Shaul's son arose, and went to Dawid at
the forest, and strengthened his hand in Elohim.
17 And he said to him, Fear not: for the hand of Shaul my
abba shall not find you; and you shall be melech over
Yisrael, and I shall be next to you; and that also Shaul my
abba knows.
18 And the two of them made a brit before vuvh: and
Dawid stayed in the forest, and Yonathan went to his
bayit.
19 Then came up the Zifites to Shaul to Givat, saying,
Does not Dawid hide himself with us in strongholds in the
forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south
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of Yeshimon?
20 Now therefore, O melech, come down according to all
the desire of your chayim to come down; and our part
shall be to deliver him into the melech's hand.
21 And Shaul said, Blessed are you of vuvh; for you have
rachamim on me.
22 Go, I ask you, prepare yet further, and know and see
his place where his hide-out is, and who has seen him
there: for it is told to me that he deals very subtly.
23 See therefore, and take da’at of all the hiding places
where he hides himself, and come again to me with the
certainty of his place, and I will go with you: and it shall
come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him
out throughout all the thousands of Yahudah.
24 And they arose, and went to Zif before Shaul: but
Dawid and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in
the plain on the south of Yeshimon.
25 Shaul also and his men went to seek him. And they
told Dawid: therefore he came down into a rock, and
stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And when Shaul heard
that, he pursued after Dawid in the wilderness of Maon.
26 And Shaul went on this side of the mountain, and
Dawid and his men on the other side of the mountain: and
Dawid made a rapid getaway to get away for fear of
Shaul; for Shaul and his men surrounded Dawid and his
men to take them.
27 But there came a messenger to Shaul, saying, Hurry
and get back, and come, for the Plishtim have invaded the
land.
28 So Shaul returned from pursuing after Dawid, and
went against the Plishtim; therefore they called that place
Sela-HaMachlekot.
29 And Dawid went up from there, and dwelt in
strongholds at En-Gedi.
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And it came to pass, when Shaul had returned from
following the Plishtim, that it was told him, saying, See,
Dawid is in the wilderness of En-Gedi.
2 Then Shaul took three thousand chosen men out of kol
Yisrael, and went to seek Dawid and his men upon the
rocks of the wild goats.
3 And he came to the sheep enclosures and on the derech,
there was a cave; and Shaul went in to relieve himself:
and Dawid and his men remained in the far ends of the
cave.
4 And the men of Dawid said to him, See the day of
which vuvh said to you, See, I will deliver your enemy
into your hand, that you may do to him as it shall seem
tov to you. Then Dawid arose, and cut off the corner of
Shaul's robe privately.
5 And it came to pass afterward, that Dawid's lev smote
him, because he had cut off Shaul's robe.
6 And he said to his men, vuvh forbid that I should do this
thing to my master, vuvh's anointed, to stretch forth my
hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of vuvh.
7 So Dawid stopped his avadim with these words, and
allowed them not to rise against Shaul. But Shaul rose up
out of the cave, and went on his way.
8 Dawid also arose afterward, and went out of the cave,
and shouted after Shaul, saying, My master the melech.
And when Shaul looked behind him, Dawid stooped with
his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
9 And Dawid said to Shaul, Why do you listen to men's