Now go back quietly and you won’t be doing anything the Philistine leaders think is wrong.”

“But what have I done?” (A) David replied to Achish. “From the first day I entered your service until today, what have you found against your servant to keep me from going to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Achish answered David, “I’m convinced that you are as reliable as an angel of God.(B) But the Philistine commanders have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’(C)

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