Will 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.
      2. David, having thus far notice given him of his danger, quitted Keilah, 1 Samuel 23:13; 1 Samuel 23:13. His followers had now increased in number to 600; with these he went out, not knowing whither he went, but resolving to follow Providence and put himself under its protection. This broke Saul's measures. He thought God had delivered David into his hand, but it proved that God delivered him out of his hand, as a bird out of the snare of the fowler. When Saul heard that David had escaped from Keilah, he forbore to go forth with the body of the army, as he intended (1 Samuel 23:8; 1 Samuel 23:8), and resolved to take only his own guards, and go in quest of his people's enemies and turn their counsels head-long.