5. Isn’t this David of whom people sing in dances:‘Saul has defeated thousandsbut David tens of thousands’?”
6. Then Achish called David and told him, “I solemnly swear, as the Lord lives, you are a dependable man. I consider your campaigning with me a good thing, because I’ve never found anything wrong with you from the day you came to me until now. But the rulers don’t approve of you.
7. So leave peacefully without doing anything to displease the Philistine rulers.”
8. “What have I done?” David asked Achish. “What have you learned about me from the time I came to you until now? Why shouldn’t I fight your enemies, Your Majesty?”