But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; so the princes of the Philistines said to him, (A)“Make this fellow return, that he may go back to the place which you have appointed for him, and do not let him go down with us to (B)battle, lest (C)in the battle he become our adversary. For with what could he reconcile himself to his master, if not with the heads of these (D)men? Is this not David, (E)of whom they sang to one another in dances, saying:

(F)‘Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands’?”

Then Achish called David and said to him, “Surely, as the Lord lives, you have been upright, and (G)your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight. For to this day (H)I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me. Nevertheless the lords do not favor you.

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