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1 Samuel 29:7
“Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 29
Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?
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.
Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.
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?
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.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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