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1 Samuel 28:1
In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men.”

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1 Samuel 28:2
David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever.”

1 Samuel 29:2
The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

1 Samuel 29:3
Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years? I have found no fault in him since he fell away until today.”

1 Samuel 21:10
David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

1 Samuel 27:1
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”

1 Samuel 29:6
Then Achish called David and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

1 Chronicles 12:19
Some of Manasseh also joined David when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle, but they didn’t help them, for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”

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1 Samuel 29:1
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.

1 Samuel 31:1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

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1 Samuel 27:5
David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”

1 Samuel 27:10
Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”

1 Samuel 27:12
Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”

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1 Samuel 30:1
When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,

1 Samuel 30:2
and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way.

1 Samuel 30:3
When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.

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