Keilah

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Keilah
     citadel, a city in the lowlands of Judah (Josh. 15:44). David
     rescued it from the attack of the Philistines (1 Sam. 23:1-8);
     but the inhabitants proving unfaithful to him, in that they
     sought to deliver him up to Saul (13), he and his men "departed
     from Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go." They fled to


     the hill Hareth, about 3 miles to the east, and thence through
     Hebron to Ziph (q.v.). "And David was in the wilderness of Ziph,
     in a wood" (1 Sam. 23:15). Here Jonathan sought him out, "and
     strengthened his hand in God." This was the last interview
     between David and Jonathan (23:16-18). It is the modern Khurbet
     Kila. Others identify it with Khuweilfeh, between Beit Jibrin
     (Eleutheropolis) and Beersheba, mentioned in the Amarna tablets.