Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
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Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
And Saul made all of the people hear for battle, to go down Keilah, to besiege against David and against his men.
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Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.
Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.
And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
Then Saul called all the people together to warre, for to go downe to Keilah, and to besiege Dauid and his men.
And Saul commanded all the people to go down to fight against Ceila, and to besiege David, and his men.
And Saul summoneth the whole of the people to battle, to go down to Keilah, to lay siege unto David and unto his men.
And Saul summons all the people to the battle, to go down to Keilah, to lay siege to David and to his men.
Saul summoned all his forces for battle, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
And Saul made all of the people hear for battle, to go down Keilah, to besiege against David and against his men.
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
So Saul called up his whole army to go and attack Keilah and to besiege David and his men.
And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.
And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is קְעִילָ֔ה Keilah H7084 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קְעִילָ֔ה Keilah H7084 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיְשַׁמַּ֥ע שָׁא֛וּל אֶת כָּל הָעָ֖ם לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה לָרֶ֣דֶת קְעִילָ֔ה לָצ֥וּר אֶל דָּוִ֖ד וְאֶל אֲנָשָֽׁיו
Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί παραἀγγέλλω σαούλ πᾶς ὁ λαός εἰς πόλεμος καταβαίνω εἰς κεϊλα συνἔχω ὁ δαυίδ καί ὁ ἀνήρ αὐτός
And Saul charged all the people to go down to war to Keila, to besiege David and his men.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וּכְנַשׁ שָׁאוּל יַת כָּל עַמָא לַאֲגָחָא קְרָבָא לְמֵיחַת לִקְעִילָה לְמֵצַר עַל דָוִד וְעַל גַבְרוֹהִי:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Qᵉʻîylâh (“Keilah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 23:8 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).