Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel. 1Sa 4:11Ki 20:301Ki 21:12Ki 9:30Jos 12:18Jos 19:301Ki 18:45-461Ki 21:23 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish. 1Sa 28:1-21Sa 29:6-7Jos 13:31Sa 5:8-111Sa 6:4
Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” 1Sa 27:7Dan 6:51Pe 3:161Sa 25:28Jhn 19:6Rom 12:17
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.”
But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men? 1Sa 14:211Ch 12:191Sa 27:6Luk 16:8 Isn’t this David, of whom people sang to one another in dances, saying, 1Sa 21:111Sa 18:6-7Pro 27:14
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his ten thousands’?”
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 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. 2Ki 19:272Sa 3:251Sa 20:3Psa 121:81Pe 2:121Pe 3:161Sa 27:8-121Sa 28:10 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.” Num 22:34
David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?” Mat 6:13Psa 34:13-141Sa 12:31Sa 17:291Sa 20:81Sa 26:181Sa 28:22Sa 16:18-19
Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’ 2Sa 14:172Sa 14:202Sa 19:27Gal 4:141Sa 29:4 Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, depart.” 1Ch 12:191Ch 12:221Co 10:131Sa 30:1-22Pe 2:9Gen 22:14Psa 37:23-24
So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines; and the Philistines went up to Jezreel. 1Sa 29:12Sa 4:4Jos 19:18