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1 Samuel 29 📜 📕 ↷
Philistines Reject David
1 THEREFORE all the companies of the Philisthiims were gathered together into Aphec: and Israel also camped upon the fountain, which was in Jezrahel.📜💬📚
2 And the Princes indeed of the Philisthiims marched in hundreds and thousands: but David and his men were in the last company with Achis.📜💬📚
3 And the Princes of the Philisthiims said to Achis: What mean these Hebrews? And Achis said to the Princes of the Philisthiims: Do you not know David, which was the servant of Saul the king of Israel, and is with me many days, or years, and I have not found any thing in him, since the day that he fled to me, until this day?📜💬📚
4 But the Princes of the Philisthiims were angry against him, and said to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, wherein thou hast appointed him, & let him not go down with us into battle, lest he become an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he otherwise pacify his lord, but in our heads?📜💬📚
5 Is not this David, to whom they sang in dances, saying: Saul hath struck his thousands, and David his ten thousands?📜💬📚
6 Achis therefor called David, and said to him: The Lord liveth, thou art just, and good in my sight: and thy going out, and thy coming in is with me in the camp: and I have not found in thee any evil, since the day that thou camest to me until this day: but thou pleasest not the nobles.📜💬📚
7 Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the Princes of the Philisthiims.📜💬📚
8 And David said to Achis: For what have I done, and what hast thou found in me thy servant, since the day that I have been in thy fight, until this day, that I may not come, and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?📜💬📚
9 And Achis answering spake to David: I know that thou art good in my sight, as an Angel of God: but the Princes of the Philisthiims have said: He shall not go up with us into battle.📜💬📚
10 Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy lord, which came with thee: and when you are risen in the night, and it shall begin to wax light, go forward.📜💬📚
11 David therefore arose in the night, he and his men, that they might set forward in the morning, and return to the land of the Philisthiims: and the Philisthiims went up into Jezrahel.📜💬📚
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