1 Samuel 23:11

Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
men	בַעֲלֵי֩ va.'a.Lei	H1167	a master · noun, common masculine plural construct
Keilah	קְעִילָ֨ה ke.'i.Lah	H7084	Keilah · proper noun, a place name
up	הֲיַסְגִּרֻ֣נִי ha.yas.gi.Ru.ni	H5462	to shut up · interrogative particle + verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + pronominal suffix
hand	בְיָד֜וֹ ve.ya.Do	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Saul	שָׁא֗וּל sha.'Ul	H7586	Shaul · proper noun, a man's name
down	הֲיֵרֵ֣ד ha.ye.Red	H3381	to descend (literally · interrogative particle + verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
servant	עַבְדֶּ֔ךָ 'av.De.kha	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
heard	שָׁמַ֣ע sha.Ma'	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֱלֹהֵ֣י 'e.lo.Hei	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
tell	הַגֶּד ha.ged-	H5046	properly · verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
servant	לְעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ le.'av.De.kha	H5650	a servant · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
said	וַיֹּ֥אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
down	יֵרֵֽד ye.Red	H3381	to descend (literally · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Matthew 7:7-8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 23:7-13

Here is, I. Saul contriving within himself the destruction of David (Sa1 23:7, Sa1 23:8): 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. But, instead of that, he catches at it as an opportunity of doing David a mischief. An ungrateful wretch he was, and for ever unworthy to have any service or kindness done him. Well might David complain of his enemies that they rewarded him evil for good, and that for his love they ere his adversa…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 23:9

he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod--The consultation was made, and the prayer uttered, by means of the priest. The alternative conditions here described have often been referred to as illustrating the doctrine of God's foreknowledge and preordination of events.

Adam Clarke on 1 Samuel 23:11

In these verses we find the following questions and answers: - David said, Will Saul come down to Keilah? And the Lord said, He will come down. Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the Lord said, They will deliver thee up. In this short history we find an ample proof that there is such a thing as contingency in human affairs; that is, God has poised many things between a possibility of being and not being, leaving it to the will of the creature to turn the scale. In the above answers of the Lord the following conditions were evidently implied: - If thou continue in Keilah, Saul will certainly come down; and If Saul come down, the men of Keilah will deliver…

Read the whole note in the console

John Gill on 1 Samuel 23:11

Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hands? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard?.... That is, if David continued there, which is the supposition all proceeds upon. The questions are not orderly put, as may easily be observed, the last should have been first; which shows some perturbation of mind David was in upon hearing the design of Saul against him: O Lord God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant; give an answer by Urim and Thummim, as he did: and the Lord said, he will come down; if David abode there; that was in his thoughts, in his purpose and design, which the Lord, being omniscient, full well knew, who knows all future contingencies: hence the Jews (n) ga…

Dictionary and topics

David — Beloved, the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a man in humble life. His mother’s name is not recorded. Some think she was the Nahash of 2 Sam.…
Foreknowledge of God — Acts 2:23; Rom. 8:29; 11:2; 1 Pet. 1:2), one of those high attributes essentially appertaining to him the full import of which we cannot comprehend. In the most absolute sense his knowledge is…
Keilah — Citadel, a city in the lowlands of Judah (Josh. 15:44). David rescued it from the attack of the Philistines (1 Sam. 23:1-8); but the inhabitants proving unfaithful to him, in that they sought to…
Urim And Thummim — (light and perfection). When the Jewish exiles were met on their return from Babylon by a question which they had no data for answering, they agreed to postpone the settlement of the difficulty till…
Ephod, The · For the high priest: Worn or held by him when consulted — For the high priest: Worn or held by him when consulted
High Priest, The · Duties of: Enquiring of God by Urim and Thummim — Duties of: Enquiring of God by Urim and Thummim
Ingratitude · .Men of Keilah to David — .Men of Keilah to David
Keilah · .David rescues — .David rescues
Urim And Thummin · Instances of consulting God by — Instances of consulting God by

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Samuel 23:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 23:7-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 23:9

Adam Clarke on 1 Samuel 23:11

John Gill on 1 Samuel 23:11

Dictionary and topics

1 Samuel 23:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 23:7-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 23:9

Adam Clarke on 1 Samuel 23:11

John Gill on 1 Samuel 23:11

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Samuel 23:1-14

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Samuel 23:7

Rashi on 1 Samuel 23:11