Day 114: David Saves Keilah (2025)
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Who is Father Mike Schmitz and what is the Bible in a Year podcast?
Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
What are today's Bible readings and how do they fit into the Great Adventure Timeline?
Using the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 114. We are just reading one chapter from 1 Samuel. We're reading 1 Samuel chapter 23. We're also praying Psalm 54. As always, the Bible translation that I am using is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. And if you have not yet subscribed to this podcast, you can just click subscribe and it'll be done and you'll be subscribed and life will be good. As I said, today is day 114. We're reading 1 Samuel chapter 23. We're praying Psalm 54.
1 Samuel chapter 23. David saves the city of Keilah.
What is the story of David saving the city of Keilah in 1 Samuel 23?
Now they told David, behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors. Therefore David inquired of the Lord, shall I go and attack these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah. But David's men said to him, behold, we are afraid here in Judah.
How does David discern God's will before attacking Keilah?
How much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? Then David inquired of the Lord again, and the Lord answered him, Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand. And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their cattle and made a great slaughter among them. So David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah. When Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand. Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars. And Saul summoned all the people to war to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod here. Then said David, O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city on my account. Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. And the Lord said, He will come down. Then said David, Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the Lord said, They will surrender you. Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go.
What challenges does David face from Saul after rescuing Keilah?
When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition, and David remained in the stronghold in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
David eludes Saul in the wilderness.
And David was afraid, because Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God. And he said to him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this. And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home. Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hakila, which is south of Jeshimon? Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand.
How does Jonathan encourage David and what covenant do they make?
And Saul said, May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have compassion on me. Go, make yet more sure.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Father Mike Schmitz and what is the Bible in a Year podcast?
0:04–0:14
2
What are today's Bible readings and how do they fit into the Great Adventure Timeline?
0:14–1:03
3
What is the story of David saving the city of Keilah in 1 Samuel 23?
1:03–1:21
4
How does David discern God's will before attacking Keilah?
1:21–2:46
5
What challenges does David face from Saul after rescuing Keilah?
2:46–3:50
6
How does Jonathan encourage David and what covenant do they make?
3:50–6:24
7
How does David evade Saul in the wilderness and what is the significance of the Rock of Escape?
6:24–8:25
8
What is Psalm 54 about and how does it relate to David's situation?
8:25–12:28