1 Samuel 29
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1 Samuel 29:1-6

1Now 1the Philistines gathered together all their armies to 2Aphek, while the Israelites were camping by the spring which is in 3Jezreel. 2And the governors of the Philistines were proceeding on, leading hundreds and thousands, and 4David and his men were proceeding in the back with Achish. 3Then the commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, 5who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and 6I have found nothing at all suspicious in him since the day he 7deserted to me to this day?” 4But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man go back, so that he will return 8to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, 9or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. For how could this man find favor with his lord? Would it not be with the heads of 10these men? 5Is this not David, 11of whom they sing in the dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands’?”

6Then Achish called David and said to him, “As the Lord lives, you have indeed been honest, and 12your 13going out and your coming in with me in the army are pleasing in my sight; 14for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the governors.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Samuel 29:1 1 Sam 28:1 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Samuel 29:1 Josh 12:18; 19:30; 1 Sam 4:1; 1 Kin 20:30 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Samuel 29:1 1 Kin 21:1; 2 Kin 9:30 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Samuel 29:2 1 Sam 28:1, 2 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Samuel 29:3 1 Sam 27:7 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Samuel 29:3 1 Sam 27:1-6; 1 Chr 12:19, 20; Dan 6:5 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Samuel 29:3 Lit fell ↩
  8. 8. 1 Samuel 29:4 1 Sam 27:6 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Samuel 29:4 1 Sam 14:21 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Samuel 29:4 Lit those ↩
  11. 11. 1 Samuel 29:5 1 Sam 18:7; 21:11 ↩
  12. 12. 1 Samuel 29:6 2 Sam 3:25; 2 Kin 19:27; Is 37:28 ↩
  13. 13. 1 Samuel 29:6 I.e., performance of duties ↩
  14. 14. 1 Samuel 29:6 1 Sam 27:8-12; 29:3 ↩

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 29

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