1 Samuel 29:4-6

New American Standard Bible

⁴ But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man go back, so that he will return ^(A)to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, ^(B)or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. For how could this man find favor with his lord? Would it not be with the heads of ^[a]these men? ⁵ Is this not David, ^(C)of whom they sing in the dances, saying,

⁶ Then Achish called David and said to him, “As the Lord lives, you have indeed been honest, and ^(D)your ^[b]going out and your coming in with me in the army are pleasing in my sight; ^(E)for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the governors.