1Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.

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

2The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

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

3Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to 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 princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?

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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, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, 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 Achish called David, and said to him, "As the Lord lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not favor you.

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

7Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines."

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Numbers 22:34, Numbers 22:34

8David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to 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

9Achish answered David, "I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding 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 now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart."

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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 rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.

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