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    1 Samuel 29

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    David marches behind the Philistines into battle, is declared faultless by Achish, and is sent away because the commanders remember what Israel sings about him.

    A reputation arrives before the armyvv. 1–5

    The Philistines gather at Aphek while Israel waits by the spring in Jezreel, and David marches behind the Philistine units with Achish. The commanders notice the Hebrew in their procession and object at once: David may be perfectly agreeable to Achish, but a man famous for slaughtering tens of thousands is a peculiar companion for an army. A war party is assembled; so, rather inconveniently, is David’s reputation.

    Faultless, and therefore dismissedvv. 6–11

    Achish summons David and gives him an extraordinary dismissal: David is upright, faultless, and as pleasing as an angel of God, but not pleasing to the commanders. David asks what fault has been found in him, though the answer is plainly that the commanders have found a problem with the entire arrangement. So David and his men rise early and return to the land of the Philistines, while the Philistines go on to Jezreel. The army has solved its difficulty by removing the one man it had just been allowing to march with it.

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    1. 1 Sam 29:1Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

    2. 1 Sam 29:2As the Philistine leaders marched out with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.

    3. 1 Sam 29:3Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”

    4. 1 Sam 29:4But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?

    5. 1 Sam 29:5Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”

    6. 1 Sam 29:6So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.

    7. 1 Sam 29:7Therefore turn back now and go in peace, so that you will not do anything to displease the leaders of the Philistines.”

    8. 1 Sam 29:8“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

    9. 1 Sam 29:9Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’

    10. 1 Sam 29:10Now then, get up early in the morning, along with your master’s servants who came with you, and go as soon as it is light.”

    11. 1 Sam 29:11So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

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    • 51 Samuel 21:11But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
    • 92 Samuel 14:20Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
    • 92 Samuel 19:27and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
    • 92 Samuel 14:17And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
    • 11 Samuel 4:1Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
    • 31 Samuel 27:7And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.
    • 3Daniel 6:5Finally these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”
    • 41 Samuel 14:21And the Hebrews who had previously gone up into the surrounding camps to join the Philistines now went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
    • 21 Samuel 28:1–2Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”
    • 5Proverbs 27:14If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.
    • 51 Samuel 18:6–7As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
    • 62 Samuel 3:25Surely you realize that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to track your movements and all that you are doing.”
    • 62 Kings 19:27But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
    • 9Galatians 4:14And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.
    • 1Joshua 12:18the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
    • 11 Kings 21:1Some time after these events, Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

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