⁴ The king answered, “I will do whatever seems best to you.”

So the king stood beside the gate while all his men marched out in units of hundreds and of thousands.

²⁴ While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman^(A) went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone.

18 David mustered the men who were with him and appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

² As the Philistine rulers marched with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men were marching at the rear^(A) with Achish.