Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
Here is, I. Saul contriving within himself the destruction of David (Sa1 23:7, Sa1 23:8): He heard that he had come to Keilah; and did he not hear what brought him thither? Was it not told him that he had bravely relieved Keilah and delivered it out of the hands of the Philistines?
Commenting on 1 Samuel 23:7-13
Then David and his men, which were about six hundred,.... Having had an increase of two hundred since he was at the cave of Adullam, Sa1 22:1, and upon his relief of Keilah, Sa1 23:5; so that he sustained no loss of men by fighting with the Philistines, but had an addition to his small forces: arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever...
1Sa 23:13 “They went whithersoever they could go” (lit. “they wandered about where they wandered about”), i.e., wherever they could go without danger.