Now at your own discretion,<n id="1" /> O king, come down. Delivering him into the king&#8217;s hand will be our responsibility.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> both kills and gives life;p> <p class="poetry">he brings down to the grave<n id="1" /> and raises up.p>

Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, please inform your servant!&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;He will come down.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

<p class="bodytext">When they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod.<n id="1" />

You will go down to Gilgal before me. I am going to join you there to offer burnt offerings and to make peace offerings. You should wait for seven days, until I arrive and tell you what to do.&#8221;p>

David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab&#8217;s brother, &#8220;Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?&#8221; Abishai replied, &#8220;I will go down with you.&#8221;p>

David said to him, &#8220;Can you take us down to this raiding party?&#8221; He said, &#8220;Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, &#8220;The Philistines have returned the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>. Come down here and take it back home with you.&#8221;p>

I thought,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s favor.&#8217; So I felt obligated<n id="2" /> to offer the burnt offering.&#8221;p>

So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles<n id="1" /> sharpened.

So Saul asked God, &#8220;Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?&#8221; But he did not answer him that day.p>

On the third day<n id="1" /> you should go down quickly<n id="2" /> and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started.<n id="3" /> Stay near the stone Ezel.

He altered his behavior in their presence.<n id="1" /> Since he was in their power,<n id="2" /> he pretended to be insane, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting his saliva run down his beard.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father&#8217;s family<n id="1" /> learned about it, they went down there to him.

So David asked the <sc>Lordsc> once again. But again the <sc>Lordsc> replied, &#8220;Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.&#8221;p>

So Saul mustered all his army to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men.<n id="1" />p>

Saul and his men went to look for him.<n id="1" /> But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.