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1 Samuel 29:6-11

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6 Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been upright, and 1your going out and your coming in with me in the army are pleasing in my sight; 2for I have not found evil in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the lords.
7 "Now therefore return and go in peace, that you may not displease * the lords of the Philistines."
8 David said to Achish, "3But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day when I came before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"
9 But Achish replied to David, "I know that you are pleasing in my sight, 4like an angel of God; nevertheless 5the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He must not go up with us to the battle.'
10 "Now then arise early in the morning 6with the servants of your lord who have come with you, and as soon as you have arisen early in the morning and have light, depart."
11 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.
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1 Samuel 29:6-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 29

This chapter gives an account of David's going forth with the armies of the Philistines, 1Sa 29:1,2; of his being objected to by the princes of the Philistines, who insisted upon his being sent back, 1Sa 29:3-5; of the report Achish made of it to David, and the discourse that passed between them upon it, 1Sa 29:6-10; whereby David had a way unexpectedly opened for him to be freed from this service, which he gladly embraced, 1Sa 29:11.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

  • 1. 2 Samuel 3:25; 2 Kings 19:27; Isaiah 37:28
  • 2. 1 Samuel 27:8-12; 1 Samuel 29:3
  • 3. 1 Samuel 27:10-12
  • 4. 2 Samuel 14:17, 20; 2 Samuel 19:27
  • 5. 1 Samuel 29:4
  • 6. 1 Chronicles 12:19, 22
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