1Now all the troops of the Philistines were gathered together to Aphec: and Israel also encamped by the fountain, which is in Jezrahel.

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1 Samuel 4:1, 1 Samuel 4:1, Joshua 19:30, 1 Kings 21:1, 1 Kings 20:30

2And the lords of the Philistines marched with their hundreds and their thousands: but David and his men were in the rear with Achis.

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1 Samuel 28:1, 1 Samuel 28:2, 1 Samuel 28:1, 1 Samuel 28:2, 1 Samuel 29:6

3And the princes of the Philistines said to Achis: What mean these Hebrews? And Achis said to the princes of the Philistines: Do you not know David who was the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, and hath been with me many days, or years, and I have found no fault in him, since the day that he fled over to me until this day?

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Daniel 6:5, 1 Samuel 27:7, Daniel 6:5, 1 Samuel 27:7, 1 Peter 3:16

4But the prices of the Philistines were angry with him, and they said to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest he be an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he otherwise appease his master, but with our heads?

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1 Samuel 14:21, 1 Samuel 14:21, 1 Chronicles 12:19, 1 Chronicles 12:19, 1 Samuel 27:6

5Is not this David, to whom they sung in their dances, saying: Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

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1 Samuel 21:11, 1 Samuel 21:11, 1 Samuel 18:6, 1 Samuel 18:7, 1 Samuel 18:6

6Then Achis called David, and said to him: As the Lord liveth, thou art upright and good in my sight: and so is thy going out, and thy coming in with me in the army: and I have not found any evil in thee, since the day that thou camest to me unto this day: but thou pleasest not the lords.

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2 Kings 19:27, 2 Samuel 3:25, 2 Kings 19:27, 2 Samuel 3:25, Psalms 121:8

7Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.

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Numbers 22:34, Numbers 22:34

8And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou found in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight until this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

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Matthew 6:13, Matthew 6:13, 1 Samuel 17:29, 1 Samuel 28:2, 1 Samuel 12:3

9And Achis answering, said to David: I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: But the princes of the Philistines have said: He shall not go up with us to the battle.

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2 Samuel 19:27, 2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 14:20, 2 Samuel 19:27, 2 Samuel 14:17

10Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy lord, who came with thee: and when you are up before day, and it shall begin to be light, go on your way.

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1 Chronicles 12:19, 1 Chronicles 12:19, 1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Samuel 30:2, 2 Peter 2:9

11So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set forward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines: and the Philistines went up to Jezrahel.

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1 Samuel 29:1, Joshua 19:18, 2 Samuel 4:4, 1 Samuel 29:1, Joshua 19:18