1 Samuel 23:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Will the men of Keilah deliver me up, to wit, if I continue in their city, and if Saul come down? The Lord said. From this place it may appear that God's answer by Urim and Thummim was not by any change in the colour or situation of the precious stones in the breastplate of the ephod, but by a voice or suggestion from God to the high priest. He will come down, i.e. he purposeth to come, if thou continuest here; for still, as David's question, so God's answer, is upon supposition, as is here sufficiently implied.

1 Samuel 23:11

11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.