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1 Samuel 29:7
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Therefore turn back now and go in peace, so that you will not do anything to displease the leaders of the Philistines.”
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Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
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Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
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Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
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1 Samuel 29
5 Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
6 So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.
7 Therefore turn back now and go in peace, so that you will not do anything to displease the leaders of the Philistines.”
8 “But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
9 Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
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