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David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
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Verse 1. Barns. The floors were composed of earth and the dregs of oil, made into a sort of mortar, so that rain, mice, and so forth could not hurt them. Cato 91 and 129.—Hither the people of Ceila had gathered their corn, and the enemy came to plunder, or to spoil, according to custom. Judges 5:4 and 15:5. Calmet.—Ceila was about seven miles from Hebron, and as many from Eleutheropolis. S. Jerom.
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