⁵ All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

²⁶ At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath:^(A) “Cursed^(B) before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:

Saul Pursues David

⁷ Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, “God has delivered him into my hands,^(A) for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”^(B)

²⁴ While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman^(A) went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone.

⁵ He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon^(A) and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,