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Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don't favor you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Achish answered David, "I know that you are 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.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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