1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. 1  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 23:15

23:15 David realized 2  that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.

1 Samuel 23:25

23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. 3  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 23:29

23:29 (24:1) 4  Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi.

1 tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”

2 tn Heb “saw.”

3 tn Heb “to search.”

4 sn Beginning with 23:29, the verse numbers through 24:22 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 23:29 ET = 24:1 HT, 24:1 ET = 24:2 HT, 24:2 ET = 24:3 HT, etc., through 24:22 ET = 24:23 HT. With 25:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.