OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 29:8

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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?”

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Verse 8. King. He speaks thus that he might not increase the suspicions of the Philistines. Menochius.—In the mean time, God called him to fight against Amalec, and to defend his own property, which was actually, or the next day, taken from Siceleg; ( Bible.) so that nothing could have been more desirable to him, than to be thus dismissed with applause. Salien.

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