1Sa 29:3 | TNotes | STEP | 29:3 servant of King Saul: To Achish, David was a valued defector. The other Philistine rulers suspected that David was a plant, planning to mount an attack from within the Philistine defenses. • never found a single fault: This was the first of three times that Achish defended David (see also 29:6 , 9 ). Yet David had been deceiving Achish the whole time (see 27:1-12 ).

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‏ 1 Samuel 29:3

29:3 ^a servant of King Saul: To Achish, David was a valued defector. The other Philistine rulers suspected that David was a plant, planning to mount an attack from within the Philistine defenses.

• never found a single fault: This was the first of three times that Achish defended David (see also 29:6 ^b, 9 ^c). Yet David had been deceiving Achish the whole time (see 27:1-12 ^d).