1 Samuel 29:7 CPDV

⁵  Is not this the David, about whom they were singing, while dancing, saying: 'Saul struck down his thousands, but David his ten thousands?'

⁶  Therefore, Achish called David, and he said to him: 'As the Lord lives, you are good and righteous in my sight, even in your departure and your return with me in the military camp. And I have not found anything evil in you, from the day that you came to me, even to this day. But you are not pleasing to the princes.

⁷  Therefore, return, and go in peace, so that you do not offend the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.'

⁸  And David said to Achish, 'But what have I done, or what have you found in me, your servant, from the day that I was in your sight to this day, so that I may not go out and fight against the enemies of my lord, the king?'

⁹  And in response, Achish said to David: 'I know that you are good in my sight, like an angel of God. But the leaders of the Philistines have said: 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.'