1 Samuel 29:6–11

⁶Then Achish called David and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and ^ayour going out and your coming in with me in the camp are pleasing in my sight; ^bfor I have not found evil in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the lords.

⁷“So now, return and go in peace, that you may not do evil in the sight of the lords of the Philistines.”

⁸And David said to Achish, “^aBut what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day when I came before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

⁹But Achish answered and said to David, “I know that you are pleasing in my sight, ^alike an angel of God; nevertheless ^bthe commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us to the battle.’

¹⁰“So now, arise early in the morning ^awith the servants of your lord who have come with you, and as soon as you have arisen early in the morning and have light, go.”

¹¹So David arose early, he and his men, to go in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.