¶ And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant as long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may [a]not go and fight against the enemies of my Lord the King?

Achish then answered and said to David, I know thou pleasest me as an Angel of God: but the princes of the Philistines have said, Let him not go up with us to battle.

10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy [b]master’s servants that are come with thee: and when ye be up early, as soon as ye have light, depart.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 29:8 This dissimulation cannot be excused: for it grieved him to go against the people of God.
  2. 1 Samuel 29:10 With them that fled unto thee from Saul.

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