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4 But the Philistine officers were angry with Achish. |Send the man back,| the Philistine officers told him. |Return him to the place you assigned him. He shouldn't go with us into battle. He shouldn't [be allowed to] become our enemy during the battle. Is this man going to try to regain his master's favor? He'll do it with the lives of our men! 5 Isn't this David of whom people sing in dances: 'Saul has defeated thousands but David tens of thousands'?| 6 Then Achish called David and told him, |I solemnly swear, as the LORD lives, you are a dependable man. I consider your campaigning with me a good thing, because I've never found anything wrong with you from the day you came to me until now. But the rulers don't approve of you. 7 So leave peacefully without doing anything to displease the Philistine rulers.| 1 Samuel 29:4-7, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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