So Achish summoned David and told him, “As the Lord lives, you are an honorable man. I think it is good[a] to have you fighting[b] in this unit with me, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today.(A) But the leaders don’t think you are reliable. Now go back quietly and you won’t be doing anything the Philistine leaders think is wrong.”

“But what have I done?” (B) David replied to Achish. “From the first day I entered your service until today, what have you found against your servant to keep me from going to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

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Footnotes

  1. 29:6 Lit It was good in my eyes
  2. 29:6 Lit you going out and coming in

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