25AND SHE BROUGHT [THEM] NEAR <TO> BEFORE SAUL AND <TO> BEFORE SERVANTS HIS AND THEY ATE AND THEY AROSE AND THEY WENT ON THE NIGHT <THE> THAT 25She served it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. And that night they got up and left.
1AND THEY GATHERED [THE] PHILISTINES <OBJ.> ALL ARMIES THEIR APHEK TOWARDS AND ISRAEL [WERE] ENCAMPED AT THE SPRING WHICH [IS] IN JEZREEL The Philistines Reject David 1Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.
2AND [THE] RULERS OF [THE] PHILISTINES [WERE] PASSING ALONG TO HUNDREDS AND TO THOUSANDS AND DAVID AND MEN HIS [WERE] PASSING ALONG AT THE LAST WITH ACHISH 2As the Philistine leaders marched out with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.
3AND THEY SAID [THE] COMMANDERS OF [THE] PHILISTINES WHAT? [ARE] THE HEBREWS <THE> THESE AND HE SAID ACHISH TO [THE] COMMANDERS OF [THE] PHILISTINES ¿ NOT [IS] THIS DAVID [THE] SERVANT OF SAUL [THE] KING OF ISRAEL WHO HE HAS BEEN WITH ME THIS DAYS OR THIS YEARS AND NOT I HAVE FOUND IN <THE> HIM ANYTHING FROM [THE] DAY FELL HE UNTIL THE DAY <THE> THIS 3Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”
4AND THEY WERE ANGRY TOWARDS HIM [THE] COMMANDERS OF [THE] PHILISTINES AND THEY SAID TO <THE> HIM [THE] COMMANDERS OF [THE] PHILISTINES SEND BACK <OBJ.> THE MAN SO MAY HE RETURN TO PLACE HIS WHERE YOU ASSIGNED HIM THERE AND NOT HE WILL GO DOWN WITH US IN THE BATTLE AND NOT HE WILL BECOME OF US <INTO> AN ADVERSARY IN THE BATTLE AND <IN> HOW? WILL HE MAKE HIMSELF ACCEPTABLE THIS ONE TO MASTER<S> HIS ¿ NOT BY [THE] HEADS OF THE MEN <THE> THOSE 4But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?
5¿ NOT [IS] THIS DAVID WHOM PEOPLE SING OF <THE> HIM IN <THE> DANCES <TO> SAYING HE HAS STRUCK DOWN SAUL <ON> THOUSANDS HIS AND DAVID <ON> TEN THOUSANDS HIS 5Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
6AND HE SUMMONED ACHISH <TO> DAVID AND HE SAID TO HIM [BY] [THE] LIFE OF YAHWEH FOR [ARE] UPRIGHT YOU AND [IS] GOOD IN VIEW MY GOING OUT YOU AND COMING IN YOU WITH ME IN THE CAMP FOR NOT I HAVE FOUND IN <THE> YOU EVIL FROM [THE] DAY COMING IN YOU TO ME UNTIL THE DAY <THE> THIS AND IN [THE] EYES OF THE RULERS NOT [ARE] GOOD YOU 6So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.
7AND THEREFORE TURN BACK AND GO IN PEACE AND NOT YOU WILL DO EVIL IN [THE] EYES OF [THE] RULERS OF [THE] PHILISTINES 7Therefore turn back now and go in peace, so that you will not do anything to displease the leaders of the Philistines.”
8AND HE SAID DAVID TO ACHISH FOR WHAT? HAVE I DONE AND WHAT? HAVE YOU FOUND IN SERVANT YOUR FROM [THE] DAY WHEN I WAS <TO> BEFORE YOU UNTIL THE DAY <THE> THIS THAT NOT I WILL GO AND I WILL FIGHT AGAINST [THE] ENEMIES OF LORD MY THE KING 8“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
9AND HE ANSWERED ACHISH AND HE SAID TO DAVID I KNOW THAT [ARE] GOOD YOU IN VIEW MY LIKE AN ANGEL OF GOD NEVERTHELESS [THE] COMMANDERS OF [THE] PHILISTINES THEY HAVE SAID NOT HE WILL GO UP WITH US IN <THE> BATTLE 9Achish replied “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
10AND THEREFORE RISE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND [THE] SERVANTS OF MASTER<S> YOUR WHO THEY HAVE COME WITH YOU AND YOU WILL RISE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND IT WILL BE LIGHT FOR <THE> YOU AND GO 10Now then, get up early in the morning, along with your master’s servants who came with you, and go as soon as it is light
11AND HE ROSE EARLY DAVID HE AND MEN HIS TO GO IN THE MORNING TO RETURN TO [THE] LAND OF [THE] PHILISTINES AND [THE] PHILISTINES THEY WENT UP JEZREEL 11So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.