⁹ Then Achish answered and said to David, “I know that you are as good in my sight ^(A)as an angel of God; nevertheless ^(B)the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

²⁷ And ^(A)he has slandered your servant to my lord the king, ^(B)but my lord the king is like the angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

²⁰ To bring about this change of affairs your servant Joab has done this thing; but my lord is wise, ^(A)according to the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that is in the earth.”

¹⁷ Your maidservant said, ‘The word of my lord the king will now be comforting; for ^(A)as the angel of God, so is my lord the king in ^(B)discerning good and evil. And may the Lord your God be with you.’ ”

¹⁴ And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me ^(A)as an ^[a]angel of God, ^(B)even as Christ Jesus.

⁴ But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; so the princes of the Philistines said to him, ^(A)“Make this fellow return, that he may go back to the place which you have appointed for him, and do not let him go down with us to ^(B)battle, lest ^(C)in the battle he become our adversary. For with what could he reconcile himself to his master, if not with the heads of these ^(D)men?