1 Samuel 29:4-11
4But athe commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, that he may return bto the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, clest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here? 5Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances,d‘Saul has struck down his thousands,
and David his ten thousands’?”
6Then Achish called David and said to him, e“As the Lord lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that fyou should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you. 7So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.” 8And David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?” 9And Achish answered David and said, “I know that you are as blameless in my sight gas an angel of God. Nevertheless, hthe commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’ 10Now then rise early in the morning iwith the servants of your lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light.” 11So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to jJezreel.
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