1SA-29:1  Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies

to

Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in

Jezreel.

1SA-29:2  And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds,

 and

by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward

with

Achish.

1SA-29:3  Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do]

these

Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the

Philistines,

[Is] not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel,

which

hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no

fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this day?

1SA-29:4  And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him;

 and

the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow

return,

that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him,

and

let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be

an

adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto

his

master? [should it] not [be] with the heads of these men?

1SA-29:5  [Is] not this David, of whom they sang one to another

in

dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten

thousands?

1SA-29:6  Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely,

[as]

the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and

thy

coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have

not

found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this

day:

nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

1SA-29:7  Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou

displease

not the lords of the Philistines.

1SA-29:8  And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and

what

hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee

unto

this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord

the

king?

1SA-29:9  And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou

[art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the

princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us

to

the battle.

1SA-29:10  Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy

master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be

up

early in the morning, and have light, depart.

1SA-29:11  So David and his men rose up early to depart in the

morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the

Philistines went up to Jezreel.

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