Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are plundering the threshing floors.”

King James Version

Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.

Holman Bible

It was reported to David: “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and raiding the threshing floors.”

International Standard Version

Someone told David, "Look, the Philistines are fighting at Keilah and are plundering the threshing floors."

A Conservative Version

And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing-floors.

American Standard Version

And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing-floors.

Amplified

Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are plundering (robbing) the threshing floors [of the grain].”

Bible in Basic English

And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.

Darby Translation

And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will announce to David, saying, Behold, the rovers fighting against Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing-floors.

King James 2000

Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing floors. .

Lexham Expanded Bible

Now they told David, "Look, [the] Philistines [are] fighting in Keilah and they [are] raiding the threshing floors."

Modern King James verseion

And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then men told David, saying, "Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and spoil the barns."

NET Bible

They told David, "The Philistines are fighting in Keilah and are looting the threshing floors."

New Heart English Bible

David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

The Emphasized Bible

Then told they David, saying, - Lo! the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing-floors.

Webster

Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.

World English Bible

David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

Youngs Literal Translation

And they declare to David, saying, 'Lo, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are spoiling the threshing-floors.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

פּלשׁתּי 
P@lishtiy 
Usage: 288

לחם 
Lacham 
Usage: 177

קעילה 
Q@`iylah 
Usage: 18

and they rob
שׁשׂה שׁסה 
Shacah 
Usage: 11

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

David Defeats The Philistines At Keilah

1 Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are plundering the threshing floors.” 2 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 deliver Keilah.”


Cross References

Joshua 15:44

and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

Nehemiah 3:17-18

After him the Levites carried out repairs under Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, the official of half the district of Keilah, carried out repairs for his district.

Leviticus 26:16

I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.

Deuteronomy 28:51

Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

Judges 6:4

So they would camp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey.

Judges 6:11

Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

Micah 6:15

“You will sow but you will not reap.
You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil;
And the grapes, but you will not drink wine.

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