It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
It is a mark of Saul's paranoid hatred of David that, at the very moment, "When Israel's king (Saul) should have been considering what honor and dignity should be done to David for his deliverance of Keilah from the marauding band of the Philistines, he caught at the situation as an opportunity for killing David.  What an ungrateful wretch Saul was!"[9]