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So he disguised his sanity while in their sight and acted insanely in their custody, and he scribbled on the doors of the gate, and drooled on his beard.

So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's household heard about it, they went down there to him.

But Gad the prophet said to David, "Do not stay in the stronghold; leave, and go into the land of Judah." So David left and went into the forest of Hereth.

"For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who informs me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who cares about me or informs me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day."

Saul then said to him, "Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is this day?"

So David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah."

So David inquired of the LORD once more. And the LORD answered him and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah, for I am going to hand the Philistines over to you."

Then David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines; and he drove away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

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

But David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."

So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD; and David stayed at Horesh, while Jonathan went to his house.

"Now then, O king, come down, since you fully desire to do so; and our part shall be to hand him over to the king."

"So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he keeps himself hidden, and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.

So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to confront the Philistines; therefore they called that place the Rock of Division.

So he said to his men, "Far be it from me because of the LORD that I would do this thing to my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to reach out with my hand against him, since he is the LORD'S anointed."

"So, my father, look! Indeed, look at the edge of your robe in my hand! For by the fact that I cut off the edge of your robe but did not kill you, know and understand that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands, and I have not sinned against you, though you are lying in wait for my life, to take it.

"So now swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not eliminate my name from my father's household."

So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel and visit Nabal, and greet him in my name;

So David's young men made their way back and returned; and they came and informed him in accordance with all these words.