10Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
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As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
Their feet are swift to shed blood: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)Here is, I. Saul contriving within himself the destruction of David ( 1 Sam. 23:7 , 8 ): He heard that he had come to Keilah ; and did he not hear what brought him thither? Was it not told him that he had bravely relieved Keilah and delivered it out of the hands of the Philistines? This, one would think, should have put Saul upon considering what honour and dignity should be done to David for this…
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