¹⁷ David went out to meet them, and said to them, “If you come peacefully to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies, since there is no ^[a]wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look on it and decide.” ¹⁸ Then ^(A)the Spirit ^[b]covered ^(B)Amasai like clothing, the chief of the thirty; and he said,

Then David received them and made them ^[c]captains of the troops.

^19 (D)From Manasseh some also defected to David when he was about to go to battle with the Philistines against Saul. But they did not help them, because the governors of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “At the cost of our heads he might defect to his master Saul.”