5. Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced,‘Saul has struck down his thousands,but David his tens of thousands’?”
6. So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you serving with me in the army. I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion of the leaders, you are not reliable.
7. So turn and leave in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!”
8. But David said to Achish, “What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”
9. Achish replied to David, “I am convinced that you are as reliable as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us in the battle.’