1 Samuel 28:2
David replied to Achish,“That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David,“Then I will make you my bodyguard from now on.”
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- 1 Sam 27:10 : 10 When Achish would ask,“Where did you raid today?” David would say,“The Negev of Judah” or“The Negev of Jeharmeel” or“The Negev of the Kenites.”
- 2 Sam 16:16-19 : 16 When David’s friend Hushai the Arkite came to Absalom, Hushai said to him,“Long live the king! Long live the king!” 17 Absalom said to Hushai,“Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?” 18 Hushai replied to Absalom,“No, I will be loyal to the one whom the LORD, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. 19 Moreover, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? Just as I served your father, so I will serve you.”
- Rom 12:9 : 9 Conduct in Love Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.
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12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself,“He is really hated among his own people in Israel! From now on he will be my servant.”
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1 The Witch of Endor In those days the Philistines gathered their troops for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David,“You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.”
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6 So Achish summoned David and said to him,“As surely as the LORD lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you serving with me in the army. I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion of the leaders, you are not reliable.
7 So turn and leave in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!”
8 But David said to Achish,“What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”
9 Achish replied to David,“I am convinced that you are as reliable as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said,‘He must not go up with us in the battle.’
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2 When the leaders of the Philistines were passing in review at the head of their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men were passing in review in the rear with Achish.
3 The leaders of the Philistines asked,“What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines,“Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!”
4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said to him,“Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men?
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20 What more can David say to you? You have given your servant special recognition, O Sovereign LORD!
21 For the sake of your promise and according to your purpose you have done this great thing in order to reveal it to your servant.
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18 What more can David say to you? You have honored your servant; you have given your servant special recognition.
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5 David said to Achish,“If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”
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10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.
11 The servants of Achish said to him,“Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,‘Saul struck down his thousands, But David his tens of thousands’?”
12 David thought about what they said and was very afraid of King Achish of Gath.
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2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. The LORD said to you,‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”
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2 So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men.
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24 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.
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24 When Saul’s servants reported what David had said,
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