CLV(i)
1 And the Philistines gather all their camps to Aphek, and the Israelites are encamping at a fountain which [is] in Jezreel,
2 and the princes of the Philistines are passing on by hundreds, and by thousands, and David and his men are passing on in the rear with Achish.
3 And the heads of the Philistines say, `What [are] these Hebrews?' and Achish said unto the heads of the Philistines, `Is not this David servant of Saul king of Israel, who has been with me these days or these years, and I have not found in him anything [wrong] from the day of his falling away till this day..
4 And the heads of the Philistines are wroth against him, and the heads of the Philistines say to him, `Send back the man, and he does turn back unto his place whither you have appointed him, and does not go down with us into battle, and is not to us for an adversary in battle; and wherewith does this one reconcile himself unto his lord--is it not with the heads of those men?.
5 Is not this David, of whom they answer in choruses, saying, Saul has smitten among his thousands, and David among his myriads?.
6 And Achish calls unto David, and said unto him, `Yahweh lives, surely you [are] upright, and good in mine eyes is your going out, and your coming in, with me in the camp, for I have not found in you evil from the day of your coming in unto me till this day; and in the eyes of the princes you are not good;"
7 and now, turn back, and go in peace, and you do do no evil in the eyes of the princes of the Philistines..
8 And David said unto Achish, `But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant from the day that I have been before you till this day--that I go not in and have fought against the enemies of my lord the king?.
9 And Achish answers and said unto David, `I have known that you [are] good in mine eyes as a messenger of Elohim; only, the princes of the Philistines have said, He does not go up with us into battle;"
10 and now, rise you early in the morning, and the servants of your lord who have come with you, when you have risen early in the morning, and have light, then go you..
11 And David rises early, he and his men, to go in the morning, to turn back unto the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines have gone up to Jezreel.