1 Samuel 29:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ “I agree,” Achish answered David. “I think you’re as good as one of God’s own messengers. Despite that, the Philistine commanders have ordered, ‘He can’t go into battle with us.’ ¹⁰ So get up early in the morning, both you and your master’s servants who came with you, and return to the place I gave you. Don’t worry about this negative report, because you’ve done well before me.^[a] Now get up early in the morning and leave as soon as it is light.”

¹¹ So David and his soldiers got up early in the morning to go back to Philistine territory, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.