place
Keilah
קְעִילָה
Keilah, a town in the Shephelah of Judah, was rescued by David from Philistine attack but later threatened to betray him to Saul (Joshua 15:44; 1Samuel 23).
- verses
- 16
- first named
- Joshua 15:44
- last named
- Nehemiah 3:18
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.61°N · 35.00°E
Khirbet Qila (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Keilah in the text
Keilah was a town located in the Shephelah, or lowland region, of Judah (Joshua 15:44). During the time of King Saul, the Philistines attacked Keilah and robbed the threshing floors. David, who was fleeing from Saul at the time, inquired of the Lord and was directed to go and save Keilah (1Sa.23.1-5). David and his men successfully defended the town against the Philistines. However, when Saul heard that David was in Keilah, he planned to besiege the city and capture him. David again sought the Lord's guidance and learned that the people of Keilah would surrender him to Saul. As a result, David and his men left Keilah and continued to evade Saul (1Sa.23.7-13). Keilah is also mentioned in the genealogies of Judah (1Ch.4.19) and in the context of the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls during the time of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 3:17-18). The exact location of Keilah is uncertain, but it is believed to be in the western foothills of Judah, possibly at the site of Khirbet Qila, about 8 miles northwest of Hebron.
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The pattern
Where Keilah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
16 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1), 1 Samuel (12), 1 Chronicles (1) and Nehemiah (2).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 16, across 4 books. The name is written 18 times in them.
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Where they appear
What happened here
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