“Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.