The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[AndTheWordWasGOD]

1 Samuel 29:3 (KJV)
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 29:4 (KJV)
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 29:5
New International Version (NIV)

Isn’t this the David they sang about in their dances:


“‘Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his tens of thousands’?”

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 29:6 (NASB)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army are pleasing in my sight; for I have not found evil in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the lords.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 29:7 (KJV)
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 29:8 (KJV)
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 19:9 (NASB)


( just kidding.... )



1 Samuel 29:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] But Achish replied to David, "I know that you are pleasing in my sight, like an angel of God; nevertheless the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He must not go up with us to the battle.'

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 29:10 (KJV)
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 29:11 (KJV)
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 30:1 (KJV)
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 30:2 (KJV)
And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 30:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 30:4
New International Version (NIV)

So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 30:5 (KJV)
And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 30:6 (NASB)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 30:7 (KJV)
And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 30:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I pursue this band? Shall I overtake them?" And He said to him, "Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and you will surely rescue all."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 30:9 (KJV)
So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

 

[OnaHinata]

But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

1 Samuel 30:10

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 30:11 (KJV)
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;