§ Keilah = "fortress" a city in the lowlands of Judah northwest of Hebron
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H7084 — קְעִילָה
qe.i.lah · Keilah · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Joshua 15:44 · וּקְעִילָ֥הKeilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.1 Samuel 23:1 · בִּקְעִילָ֔הDavid was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”1 Samuel 23:2 · קְעִילָֽה׃Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” Yahweh said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”1 Samuel 23:3 · קְעִלָ֔הDavid’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”1 Samuel 23:4 · קְעִילָ֔הThen David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”1 Samuel 23:5 · קְעִילָ֜ה · קְעִילָֽה׃ סDavid and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.1 Samuel 23:6 · קְעִילָ֑הIt happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.1 Samuel 23:7 · קְעִילָ֑הIt was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”1 Samuel 23:8 · קְעִילָ֔הSaul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.1 Samuel 23:10 · קְעִילָ֑הThen David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.1 Samuel 23:11 · קְעִילָ֨הWill the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.” Yahweh said, “He will come down.”1 Samuel 23:12 · קְעִילָ֛הThen David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”1 Samuel 23:13 · מִקְּעִלָ֔ה · מִקְּעִילָ֔הThen David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.1 Chronicles 4:19 · קְעִילָ֖הThe sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.Nehemiah 3:17 · קְעִילָ֖הAfter him, the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.Nehemiah 3:18 · קְעִילָֽה׃ סAfter him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.