1 Samuel 29:11
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New International Version (©2011)
So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So David and his men headed back into the land of the Philistines, while the Philistine army went on to Jezreel.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So David arose early, he and his men, to depart in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So 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.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to Philistine territory, while the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

NET Bible (©2006)
So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Early the next morning David and his men returned to Philistine territory, while the Philistines went to Jezreel.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

American King James Version
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

American Standard Version
So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set forward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines: and the Philistines went up to Jezrahel.

Darby Bible Translation
And David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jizreel.

English Revised Version
So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

Webster's Bible Translation
So David and his men rose early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

World English Bible
So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.

Young's Literal Translation
And David riseth 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

29:6-11 David scarcely ever had a greater deliverance than when dismissed from such insnaring service. God's people should always behave themselves so, as, if possible, to get the good word of all they have dealings with: and it is due to those who have acted well, to speak well of them.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning,.... Being as willing and ready to go as the Philistines were desirous they should:

to return into the land of the Philistines; for now they were in the land of Israel, at Aphek, near Jezreel, from whence they went back to Ziklag, which was within the principality of Gath; and, according to Bunting (o), was eighty eight miles from the place where the army of the Philistines was; but it seems not very likely that it should be so far off:

and the Philistines went up to Jezreel; where the army of the Israelites lay encamped, in order to fight them. By the dismission of David from the army of the Philistines, he was not only delivered from a sad plight he was in, either of acting an ungrateful part to Achish, or an unnatural one to Israel; but also, by the pressing charge of Achish to get away as early as possible in the morning, he came time enough to rescue the prey the Amalekites had taken at Ziklag his city, as in the following chapter; and the providence of God in this affair is further observable, as by some represented, since if David had stayed in the camp of the Philistines, it would not have been so easy for him, on the death of Saul, to have got from them, and succeed in the kingdom, as he could and did from Ziklag.

(o) Travels, &c. p. 137.

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The Philistines Reject David
…9And Achish answered and said to 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. 10Why now rise up early in the morning with your master's servants that are come with you: and as soon as you be up early in the morning, and have light, depart. 11So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

Joshua 15:56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
1 Samuel 29:10 Now get up early, along with your master's servants who have come with you, and leave in the morning as soon as it is light."
1 Samuel 30:1 David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,