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1 Samuel 27:12
“Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 27
10
Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.
11
David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell of us, saying, 'So did David, and so has been his way all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.
12
Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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