11. Lord God of Israel, will Saul come down as your servant has heard? Please tell your servant.""Yes, he will come down," the Lord answered.
12. Next David asked, "Will the citizens of Keilah hand me and my soldiers over to Saul?""Yes, they will hand you over," the Lord replied.
13. So David and his troops—approximately six hundred men—got up and left Keilah. They kept moving, going from one place to the next. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he didn’t go there.
14. David lived in the fortresses in the wilderness and in the hills of the Ziph wilderness. Saul searched for him constantly, but God did not hand David over to Saul.
15. While David was at Horesh in the Ziph wilderness he learned that Saul was looking to kill him.
16. Saul’s son Jonathan came to David at Horesh and encouraged him with God.
17. Jonathan said to him, "Don’t be afraid! My father Saul’s hand won’t touch you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be your second in command. Even my father Saul knows this."
18. Then the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. David stayed at Horesh, but Jonathan went back home.
19. Some Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah. "David is hiding among us in the fortresses at Horesh on the hill of Hachilah, south of Jeshimon," they said.