1 Samuel 29:3

3 Pero los comandantes filisteos reclamaron:
—¿Qué hacen aquí estos hebreos?
Y Aquis les dijo:
—Este es David, el siervo de Saúl, rey de Israel. Él ha estado conmigo por años, y no he encontrado en él ninguna falta, desde que llegó hasta el día de hoy.

1 Samuel 29:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 29:3

Then said the princes of the Philistines
To Achish; not those of the court of Achish, who were his subjects, but the confederate princes with him in this war, the lords of the other principalities, as appears by the freedom they took with him, ( 1 Samuel 29:4 ) ;

what [do] these Hebrews [here]?
or Jews, as the Targum; what hast thou to do with them, or they to be with thee? men of another nation and religion, and known enemies to the Philistines:

and Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines;
in order to soften them, and reconcile them to these men, and their being with him:

[is] not this David the servant of Saul the king of Israel;
between whom there had been a quarrel, and the former had fled from the latter to him:

which hath been with me these days, or these years;
had been with him many days, and he might say years, as he had been with him one whole year, and part of another, see ( 1 Samuel 27:7 ) ; and he might have known him longer, if he was the same Achish David first fled to; Kimchi interprets it, that he knew him as well as if he had been with him as many years as days:

and I have found no fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this day?
the affair of David's going against the Geshurites not being yet known by him, or, if it was, he approved of it, they being enemies of his; this shows that David behaved with a great deal of prudence to have such a character as this from a king of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 29:3 In-Context

1 Los filisteos rechazan a David
Todo el ejército filisteo se movilizó en Afec, y los israelitas acamparon junto al manantial de Jezreel.

2 Mientras los gobernantes filisteos dirigían a sus tropas en grupos de cien y de mil, David y sus hombres marcharon por la retaguardia con el rey Aquis.

3 Pero los comandantes filisteos reclamaron:
—¿Qué hacen aquí estos hebreos?
Y Aquis les dijo:
—Este es David, el siervo de Saúl, rey de Israel. Él ha estado conmigo por años, y no he encontrado en él ninguna falta, desde que llegó hasta el día de hoy.

4 Pero los comandantes filisteos se enojaron.
—¡Envíalo de vuelta a la ciudad que le diste! —le exigieron—. No puede ir con nosotros a la batalla. ¿Y si se vuelve contra nosotros durante la batalla y se convierte en nuestro adversario? ¿Qué mejor manera de reconciliarse con su amo que entregándole nuestras cabezas?

5 ¿No es este el mismo David por quien las mujeres de Israel cantan en sus danzas:
“Saúl mató a sus miles,
y David, a sus diez miles”?