1 Samuel 29:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Now turn back and go in peace; do nothing to displease the Philistine rulers."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Please don't upset them, but go back quietly."

English Standard Version (©2001)
So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Now therefore return and go in peace, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Now go back quietly and you won't be doing anything the Philistine leaders think is wrong."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Now return and go in peace, so you do nothing to displease the Philistine leaders."

NET Bible (©2006)
So turn and leave in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So leave peacefully without doing anything to displease the Philistine rulers."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you displease not the lords of the Philistines.

American King James Version
Why now return, and go in peace, that you displease not the lords of the Philistines.

American Standard Version
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.

Darby Bible Translation
And now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

English Revised Version
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

World English Bible
Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines."

Young's Literal Translation
and now, turn back, and go in peace, and thou dost do no evil in the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.'

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

Wherefore now return,.... To Ziklag:

and go in peace; not only in a peaceable manner, easy and satisfied, as David was at his very heart to hear this, but all prosperity and happiness attend thee; the Jews (n) distinguish between wishing persons to go in peace, and to go to peace; the former they observe has not issued happily, when the other has, and they instance in the wish of Jethro to Moses, and of David to Absalom:

that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines: and what would be the consequence of that he could not say, but suggests it would be most for his peace and safety to depart.

(n) T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 64. 1. Sepher Alphes, par. 1. fol. 421. 2.

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The Philistines Reject David
…6Then Achish called David, and said to him, Surely, as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day: nevertheless the lords favor you not. 7Why now return, and go in peace, that you displease not the lords of the Philistines. 8And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant so long as I have been with you to this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king? …

1 Samuel 29:6 So Achish called David and said to him, "As surely as the LORD lives, you have been reliable, and I would be pleased to have you serve with me in the army. From the day you came to me until today, I have found no fault in you, but the rulers don't approve of you.
1 Samuel 29:8 "But what have I done?" asked David. "What have you found against your servant from the day I came to you until now? Why can't I go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"